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Date: 1796
"Her person charmed his eye, but his own imagination framed her mind, and while his enchanted faculties were the mere slaves of her beauty, they persuaded themselves they were vanquished by every other perfection."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1796
"The impression, however, left upon the mind of our poor Mother, I should try vainly to disguise, since it has given her a shock that has forced from me the opening of this letter."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1796
"I shall paint your meeting in my 'mind's eye,' see you again restored to the sunshine of her fondness, and while away my solitary languor with reveries far more soothing than any that I have yet experienced at Belfont."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1796
"An idea of any active service invigorates the body as well as the mind."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1796
"The speeches of the unsuspicious Eugenia, that a moment before would have past unheeded, now regaled her renovated fancy with a thousand amusing images, which so vigorously struggled against her sadness and her terrors, that they were soon nearly driven from the field by their sportive assailant...
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
