Date: 1776
"Too much a slave to all the fond affections of the heart, love for my brother tempted me to hope that his society might sooth my griefs, and lull my cares to rest."
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Date: 1776
"A thousand wild vagaries now rushed into my troubled brain."
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: 1776
"Can you, my once dear friend, without abhorrence, think of her who robbed you of a brother, and was the unhappy cause his pure and spotless soul was stained with blood?"
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Date: 1777
"She passed the night without rest; the ideas of coaches, coronets, titles, filled her mind, and effectually murdered sleep."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1777
"Col. Dormer, though he knew the human heart, had never yet thought of taking his nieces in more active scenes of life: he had fallen into the common mistake of people past the meridian of their days, who, feeling tranquillity their greatest good, do not sufficiently reflect that it is insipid at...
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1777
"She saw something like just drawing in the dark shades of his pencil, though the lines seemed a good deal exaggerated: she reflected, she doubted; but, after settling a balance in her mind, the found her own scale preponderate."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1777
"The eyes were the index of the mind--his had said--Good heavens! what had they not said?"
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1777
"Her mind, not less pure and unsullied, was obvious and transparent as the dear rivulet in the sequestered vale."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1777
"Lord Melvile had courage to persevere in advancing, though Dorignon's idea perpetually obtruded itself on his imagination; the charms of her form indeed were not such as justified his infatuation; she was, in respect to personal attractions, much below mediocrity; but her sprightly sallies, her ...
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)