Date: 1778, 1779
"Let me, therefore, prepare for disappointment those who, in the perusal of these sheets, entertain the gentle expectation of being transported to the fantastic regions of Romance, where Fiction is coloured by all the gay tints of luxurious Imagination, where Reason is an outcast, and where the s...
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"Indeed, I could but ill support her former yearly visits to the respectable mansion at Howard Grove; pardon me, dear Madam, and do not think me insensible of the honour which your Ladyship's condescension confers upon us both; but so deep is the impression which the misfortunes of her mother hav...
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"Your impatience to fly to a place which your imagination has painted to you in colours so attractive, surprizes me not; I have only to hope that the liveliness of your fancy may not deceive you: to refuse, would be to raise it still higher."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"A confused idea now for the first time entered my head, something I had heard of the rules of assemblies; but I was never at one before,--I have only danced at school,--and so giddy and heedless I was, that I had not once considered the impropriety of refusing one partner, and afterwards accepti...
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"I was thunderstruck at the recollection: but, while these thoughts were rushing into my head, Lord Orville, with some warmth, said, 'This lady, Sir, is incapable of meriting such an accusation!'"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"Yet I will hope every thing from the unsullied whiteness of your soul, and the native liveliness of your disposition."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"Far be it from me," said Lord Orville, "to dispute the magnetic power of beauty, which irresistibly draws and attracts whatever has soul and sympathy."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"But I am happy to observe, that he seems to have made no impression upon your heart, and therefore a very little care and prudence may secure you from those designs which I fear he has formed."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"I must be divested, not merely of a filial piety, but of all humanity, could I ever think upon this subject, and not be wounded to the soul."
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