Date: 1790
"Still through the deep'ning gloom of bow'ry shades / To Fancy's eye fantastic forms appear"
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1791
"Lady Castlenorth was laying up a little magazine of literature, which she intended to open on Willoughby the next day; and her daughter was contemplating in her mind's eye, the handsome person of Willoughby, the figure they should make at Court, and the triumph there would be, when without degra...
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1794
"But the latter was too deeply wounded, through the medium of her mind, to be quickly revived."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1794
"In the eye of fancy, she perceived the gleam of arms through the duskiness of night, the glitter of spears and helmets, and the banners floating dimly on the twilight; while now and then the blast of a distant trumpet echoed along the defile, and the signal was answered by a momentary clash of a...
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1794
"Her first care was to guard the door of the stair-case, for which purpose she placed against it all the furniture she could move, and she was thus employed, for some time, at the end of which she had another instance how much more oppressive misfortune is to the idle, than to the busy; for, havi...
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1794
"A superstitious dread stole over her; she stood listening, for some moments, in trembling expectation, and then endeavoured to recollect her thoughts, and to reason herself into composure; but human reason cannot establish her laws on subjects, lost in the obscurity of imagination, any more than...
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1794
"[T]he thing in which my imagination revelled the most freely, was the analysis of the private and internal operations of the mind, employing my metaphysical dissecting knife in tracing and laying bare the involutions of motive, and recording the gradually accumulating impulses."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1796
"Aided by her youth and healthy constitution, she shook off the malady which her mother's death had occasioned; but it was not so easy to remove the disease of her mind."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"With affright did he bend his mind's eye on the space beyond the grave; nor could hide from himself how justly he ought to dread Heaven's vengeance."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"The mind of a young woman lady should be clear and unsullied, like a sheet of white paper, or her own fairer face"
preview | full record— Hays, Mary (1760-1843)