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Date: 1776
"But various are the effects of the same disease, upon the human body, and as various are the effects of the self-same passion upon the human mind.--I think that last a good pretty philosophical sort of a sentence.--'Tis poetical, at least."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"My mind was totally occupied on the peculiar unhappiness of yours, in not being able to conquer a passion, which you acknowledge to be hopeless."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"I have been long labouring to consider this idol of my heart as misers do their hidden treasure; though hopeless of enjoying it, yet while I thought 'twas safe, I could not look upon myself undone."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"O Lucy, if you ever loved me, strive, I conjure you, to assuage her gentle sorrows, and pour the balm of friendship on her wounded heart!"
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"My eyes are closed to beauty; I only feel its power, when I turn them inward, and gaze upon the image in my heart."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"As chaste, as delicate, believe me Lucy, as the opening rose, shou'd be the female heart."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"O Charles! the treasures of my Lucy's mind have been concealed till now; beneath the mask of gaiety she hid the tenderest, noblest feelings of the heart, the justest sentiments, and the most perfect female understanding."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"Would it were passed, and that like Aetna, though my bosom flamed, my head was crowned with snow."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"When Dr. Johnson speaks, we listen with respect and admiration, and feel our minds impressed with such an attentive kind of veneration, as I imagine was paid to the oracles of old."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"When Mrs. Montagu, in the purest and most elegant language, delivers sentiments equally just and sublime as his, we are surprised and delighted; the gracefulness of her manner seems to add beauty to her thoughts; her words sink into our hearts, like the softest sounds of the most perfect harmony...
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
