Date: 1796
"How, at a moment like this, could she make her purposed confession to her father, whose wounded mind demanded all she could offer of condolement?"
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
"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)
Date: w. 1766, 1797
"Has my moral pencil / So oft portray'd the forms of truth and falshood, / In their just lineaments, to thy mind's eye"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: w. September 1794, 1797
"Wit, that no suffering could impair, / Was thine, and thine whose mental powers / Of force to chase the fiends that tear / From Fancy's hands her budding flowers."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1797
"Grief, the most fatal of the heart's diseases, / Soon teaches, who it fastens on, to die."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1797
"But it is sometimes not difficult to any one who is accustomed, if the phrase may be allowed, to the anatomy of the human mind, to discern, that generally speaking, the persons who use the above language, rely not so much on the merits of Christ, and on the agency of Divine Grace, as on their ow...
preview | full record— Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)