Date: 1776
"No words will ever be able to express my feelings, nor no time to erase them from my heart."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"She has not yet recovered the vivacity she possessed before her attachment to Captain Williams; but time, they say, can conquer every thing, and will, I trust, erase the memory of that disagreeable event from her mind."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"I needed not to read it, the words were but too deeply engraved upon my heart."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1778, 1779
"I cannot write the scene that followed, though every word is engraven on my heart."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"Yes, my child, thy happiness is engraved, in golden characters, upon the tablets of my heart! and their impression is indelible; for, should the rude and deep-searching hand of Misfortune attempt to pluck them from their repository, the fleeting fabric of life would give way, and in tearing from...
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"Do you think I was not grateful for his attention? yes, indeed, and every angry idea I had entertained, was totally obliterated."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"'Oh, Sir,' exclaimed I, 'that you could but read my heart!--that you could but see the filial tenderness and concern with which it overflows! you would not then talk thus,--you would not then banish me your presence, and exclude me from your affection!'"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1777, 1780
"[T]he name of Sir Philip Harclay shall be engraven upon my heart, next to my Lord and his family, for ever"
preview | full record— Reeve, Clara (1729-1807)
Date: 1782
"You are much deceived; you have been reading your own mind, and thought you had read his."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"Else would I tell you that more sacred than my life will I hold what I have heard, that the words just now graven on my heart, shall remain there to eternity unseen."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)