Date: 1767
"[I]ndeed, in her more serious moments, which are but few, she, perhaps, gives me an hearing, when all at once a crowd of gayer thoughts rush on, and kill at once the hopes wherewith I was elated a few minutes before"
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Date: 1784
"Pistols prim'd and carbines loaded, / Courage strikes on hearts of steel"
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Date: February 17, 1786
"The bonds of Hymen o'er my mind, / My constant soul must ever bind."
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Date: 1788
"Worlds would I give now for that sketch of my Quintin, that my cruel brother deprived me of; but his dear image is engraven on my heart"
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Date: 1788
"[A guardian] claps a pen in my hand, and ties me like a seal to his ugly parchment, while my heart can receive no impression, but the idea of my beloved Aircourt"
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Date: 1788
"O yes, this is his valet that Lady Jane mentioned, this is her O'Donovan and my Aircourt, but my heart is steel'd against him"
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