Date: 1725
"Forgive the harsh Expression, for believe, of all Mankind, I cou'd esteem you as a Friend--but, alas! my Heart wants room to entertain you as a tender Guest; long e're I knew your Merits it was taken up, all the Affections of my Soul are riveted to another--to him I am bound by all the ties of H...
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Date: 1736
"Philosophy was incapable of affording her any Relief, and all her Reason served only to paint the Unhappiness of her Condition in the stronger Colours."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1736
"This Discourse, meant for a Comfort, was the severest Corrosive to the Heart of Eovaai."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1736
"Here I had an Opportunity of observing how little the Toils of the Body are to be held in competition with those of the Mind."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1753
"We often see that to reverse this boasted constancy is the work of but a single minute,--and then in vain their past professions recoil upon their minds;--in vain the idea of the forsaken fair haunts them in nightly visions."
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Date: 1759
"From their children, if they have less to fear, they have less also to hope, and they lose, without equivalent the joys of early love and the convenience of uniting with manners pliant, and minds susceptible of new impressions, which might wear away their dissimilitudes by long cohabitation, as ...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)