Date: 1755
"But where the Heart is PARTIALLY ENGAGED, we have frequent Instances of its clouding the Understanding, and MAKING DUPES OF THE WISEST."
preview | full record— Charke [née Cibber; other married name Sacheverell], Charlotte [alias Mr Brown] (1713-1760)
Date: 1755
"THE SHOCK OF RECEIVING MY OWN LETTER did not excite a sudden Gust of unwarrantable Passion, but prey'd upon my Heart with the slow and eating Fire of Distraction and Despair, 'till it ended in a Fever, which now remains upon my Spirits; and which, I fear, I shall find a difficult Task to overcome."
preview | full record— Charke [née Cibber; other married name Sacheverell], Charlotte [alias Mr Brown] (1713-1760)
Date: 1758
"As you would not wish to sail in a large, and finely decorated, and gilded Ship, and sink: so neither is it eligible to inhabit a grand and sumptuous House, and be in a Storm [of Passions and Cares]."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1774
Romances "ventilate the mind by sudden gusts of passion; and prevent the stagnation of thought, by a fresh infusion of dissimilar ideas"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1777
"Its [the heart's] liveliest advances are frequently impeded by the obstinacy of prejudice, and its brightest promises often obscured by the tempests of passion."
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: December 1790
"Ambition becomes only the tool of vanity, and his reason, the weather-cock of unrestrained feelings, is only employed to varnish over the faults which it ought to have corrected."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: December 1790
"These lively conjectures are the breezes that preserve the still lake from stagnating"
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1792
"The passions also, the winds of life, would be useless, if not injurious, did the substance which composes our thinking being, after we have thought in vain, only become the support of vegetable life, and invigorate a cabbage, or blush in a rose."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1792
"Like the lightning's flash are many recollections; one idea assimilating and explaining another, with astonishing rapidity."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1792
"For it is the right use of reason alone which makes us independent of everything--excepting the unclouded reason--'Whose service is perfect freedom.'"
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)