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Date: 1761
"As I have an implicit faith in this good woman's skill, I remained perfectly satisfied with the judgment she had pronounced; and agreeing with her, that the sickness of the mind was beyond the power of medicine to reach."
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1761
"We are indeed so much used to what they call poetical justice, that we are disappointed in the catastrophe of a fable, if every body concerned in it be not disposed of according to the sentence of that judge which we have set up in our own breasts"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1761
"His looks, and the tone of voice with which he spoke this, made my blood run cold, and my heart die within me."
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1761
"[Y]et were his offences against me even greater than they are, your example would teach me to blot them all from my mind"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1761
"Your brother, narrow-hearted, inhuman wretch, I blot forever from my thoughts"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1761
One may be "by a blameless life, endeavouring to blot out the memory of her fault"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1761
Faulkland has "steeled my husband's heart against me, heaped infamy on my head, and loaded my mother's age with sorrow and remorse"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1761
"If the unfortunate Mr. Arnold sees his error, can you be so unchristian as to endeavour at steeling his wife's heart against him?"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1761
"This was the master-key to her behaviour, and once I had got it, which I soon did, it was easy to unlock her breast."
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1761
"I have been a slave to a hopeless passion too long; I am now resolved to struggle with my chains: you, Madam, must assist me in breaking them intirely; and I make no doubt but that time, joined to my own efforts, and aided by your sweetness of disposition, your tenderness, and admirable sense, w...
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
