Date: 1787
"It is often a trifle; a little crumb; but it is those little crumbs that we must not suffer to accumulate till the next day."
preview | full record— Louise Florence Pétronille Tardieu d'Ésclavelles Épinay (marquise d') (1726-1783)
Date: 1787
"They converse not, they open not their mouths, they are silent, but they engrave their principles on the heart in indelible characters, instead of inconsistently crowding them on the memory."
preview | full record— Louise Florence Pétronille Tardieu d'Ésclavelles Épinay (marquise d') (1726-1783)
Date: 1789
"A passion like mine, makes the heart rebellious--it will love on--it will hope, in spite of the rules cold reason dictates"
preview | full record— Inchbald [née Simpson], Elizabeth (1753-1821)
Date: w. October, 1796; 1810
"Conscious the mortal stamp is on thy breast."
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1798
"Agatha's heart is to be your judge."
preview | full record— Inchbald, Elizabeth (1753-1821); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
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
"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: 1799
"Your form is indelibly engraven on my heart."
preview | full record— Plumptre, Anne (1760-1818); Kotzebue (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
"My father!--my father!--why have you concealed yourself so long from your son?--why have you not sooner communicated joy to a bosom to which it has hitherto been a stranger?"
preview | full record— Plumptre, Anne (1760-1818); Kotzebue (1761-1819)