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Date: 1752
"To charm his reason dress your mind, / Till love shall be with friendship joined."
preview | full record— Clark [née Lewis], Esther (bap. 1716, d. 1794)
Date: 1752
"Should passion e'er his soul deform, / Serenely meet the bursting storm; / Never in wordy war engage, / Nor ever meet his rage with rage. / With all our sex's softening art / Recall the lost reason to his heart; / Thus calm the tempest in his breast, / And sweetly soothe his soul to rest."
preview | full record— Clark [née Lewis], Esther (bap. 1716, d. 1794)
Date: 1752
"When cares invade your partner's heart, / Bear you a sympathising part, / And kindly claim your share of pain, / And half his troubles still sustain."
preview | full record— Clark [née Lewis], Esther (bap. 1716, d. 1794)
Date: 1752
"[T]he Sight of me will cause so many tumultuous Motions in the Soul of his Patient"
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1752
"Heroism, romantick Heroism, was rooted deeply in her Heart; it was her Habit of thinking, a Principle imbib'd from Education"
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1752
Thoughts may war with one another
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1752
"But, in order to place this momentous Affair in a true Light, 'tis necessary to go back a little, and acquaint the Reader with what had passed in the Apartment; and also, following the Custom of the Romance and novel-Writers, in the Heart, of our Heroine"
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1752
"Recall your wandring Thoughts; reflect upon the Dishonour you will bring upon yourself, by persisting in such unjustifiable Sentiments."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1752
One may contemplate "the sudden Change" and "divine Image" which is engraven in the heart
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1752
"The Countess's Discourse had raised a Kind of Tumult in her Thoughts, which gave an Air of Perplexity to her lovely Face"
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
