Date: 1782
"A weight was removed from his mind which had nearly borne down even his remotest hopes."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"The life I led at the cottage was the life of a savage; no intercourse with society, no consolation from books; my mind locked up, every source dried of intellectual delight, and no enjoyment in my power but from sleep and from food."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"A plan by which so great a revolution was to be wrought in her mind, was not to be effected by any sudden effort of magnanimity, but by a regular and even tenour of courage mingled with prudence."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"She hastily obeyed the summons; the constant image of her own mind, Delvile, being already present to her, and a thousand wild conjectures upon what had brought him back, rapidly occurring to her."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"I was bewitched, I was infatuated! common sense was estranged by the seduction of a chimera; my understanding was in a ferment from the ebullition of my imagination!"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)