Date: 1790
"Suspicion is like a mist, which renders the object it shades so uncertain, that the figure must be finished by imagination; and, when distrust takes the pencil, the strokes are generally so dark, that the disappointed heart sickens at the picture."
preview | full record— Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)
Date: 1791
"Fancy paints with hues unreal,/ Smile of bliss, and sorrow's mood."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1791, 1794
"When fancy paints to me the good old man stooping to raise the weeping penitent, while every tear from her eye is numbered by drops from his bleeding heart, my bosom glows with honest indignation, and I wish for power to extirpate those monsters of seduction from the earth."
preview | full record— Rowson, Susanna (1762-1828)
Date: 1791, 1794
"The goodness of her heart is depicted in her ingenuous countenance."
preview | full record— Rowson, Susanna (1762-1828)
Date: 1791, 1794
"Even now imagination paints the scene, when, torn by contending passions, when, struggling between love and duty, you fainted in my arms, and I lifted you into the chaise."
preview | full record— Rowson, Susanna (1762-1828)
Date: 1792
"The lively heated imagination likewise, to apply the comparison, draws the picture of love, as it draws every other picture, with those glowing colours, which the daring hand will steal from the rainbow, that is directed by a mind, condemned in a world like this, to prove its noble origin by pan...
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1792
"The understanding, it is true, may keep us from going out of drawing when we group our thoughts, or transcribe from the imagination and warm sketches of fancy; but the animal spirits, the individual character, give the colouring."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1793
"[Y]et, half repentant now / Her headlong haste, she wishes she had staid / To die with those affrighted Fancy paints / The lawless soldiers' victims."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1794
Busy thought may paint "a thousand horrors"
preview | full record— Cave [later Winscom], Jane (c.1754-1813)
Date: 1794
"As her imagination painted with melancholy touches, the deserted plains of Troy, such as they appeared in this after-day, she reanimated the landscape with the following little story."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)