Date: 1798
Prejudices "are like old Wounds! when the weather changes they still smart"
preview | full record— Plumptre, Anne (1760-1818); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1798
"He sticks to his text I find; for he always begins his sermons by telling me what fine things I could do, if I would but give my soul elbow room"
preview | full record— Brand, Hannah (d. 1821); Philippe Héricault Destouches (1680-1754)
Date: 1798
"It matters not, though gen'rous in their nature, / They yet may serve a most ungen'rous end; / And he who teaches men to think, though nobly, / Doth raise within their minds a busy judge / To scan his actions."
preview | full record— Baillie, Joanna (1762-1851)
Date: 1798
"My mother I have never seen--never by affection's ties has she chained my soul to her's!"
preview | full record— Plumptre, Anne (1760-1818); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1798
"But I'm a Bust with Heart of Steel, / That can nor Pain nor Pleasure feel."
preview | full record— Elizabeth [née Lady Elizabeth Berkeley], margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Bayreuth [other married name Elizabeth Craven, Lady Craven] (1750-1828)
Date: 1799
The inexpressible feeling may be engraved on a tear or on the heart
preview | full record— Geisweiler, Maria (fl. 1799); Kotezebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
"Your form is indelibly engraven on my heart."
preview | full record— Plumptre, Anne (1760-1818); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
One may have an "open look, in which goodness and a noble soul are deeply engraven"
preview | full record— Geisweiler, Maria (fl. 1799); Kotezebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
"They are brave fellows;--they have arms of iron, and hearts of wax."
preview | full record— Plumptre, Anne (1760-1818); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
"Your iron heart brings me to myself"
preview | full record— Inchbald, Elizabeth (1753-1821); Kotzebue (1761-1819)