Date: 1726
One may find "his own Affections ... impossible to conquer, or bring into any bounds of Reason."
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1726
"But as we are always ready to flatter our selves, so did our Lover, and took the Lady's Courtesie for Kindness, and her smiling Looks for interiour Affection."
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1726
"[H]e promis'd me a thousand Fineries, gave me an handful of Gold, told me I should have a fine House of my own, a Coach and Servants, with all manner of Imbellishments to grace and adorn my Beauty; which Beauty (continu'd he) has chain'd my Heart, ever since the moment I beheld it in the Milline...
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1726
"[I]n vain I strove to conquer a Passion that had mingled with my Soul, and reigned in every Vein"
preview | full record— Aubin, Penelope (1679?-1731?)
Date: 1726
"[T]he Person of the Man, and the Manner in which he delivered his Message, made such an Impression on her Mind, that she was in an instant changed"
preview | full record— Aubin, Penelope (1679?-1731?)
Date: [1726]
"I will not (continued the God of tender Wishes) prolong the little Narrative I have to make you, by a repetition of her Lamentations when alone, and at liberty to indulge them; you may believe they were extremely violent, and suitable to the Occasion: but as soon as Reason had the power of resum...
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: [1726]
"Review with the Mind’s Eye the various scenes of Life which this Day’s Progress has presented."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: [1726]
"Endeavour at least, to throw each darling Failing from thy Soul; and those Reflections which, in thy coolest Hours of Thought, Reason inspires, retain about thee always; then canst thou never be by any ill Passion sway'd, nor do a Deed which Conscience can condemn: Conscience and Reason still go...
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: [1726]
"Let what I have said be written in thy Heart, and keep it ever treasured in thy Mind."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: [1726]
"Being alone, under the pretence of diverting her Melancholy, he desir’d to sup with her, which she consented to with pleasure; but he took care in filling out the Wine to mingle something in it of a more intoxicating kind, which tho’ she drank of but with moderation, had the effect he aim’d at, ...
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)