Date: 1778, 1779
"How rapid was then my Evelina's progress through those regions of fancy and passion whither her new guide conducted her!"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"Mean while Cecilia, disturbed from the calm of soft serenity to which she had yielded every avenue of her soul, now looked forward with distrust and uneasiness, even to the completion of the views which but a few minutes before had comprised all her notions of felicity."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1788
"Still, however, the sense of her own incurable unhappiness, her own irretrievable unworthiness, and the disgrace of having sullied the honour of her family, and given pain to such a brother, overwhelmed her with grief and confusion; while her reason, as it at intervals returned, served only to s...
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1790
"But, the region of passion is a land of despotism, where reason exercises but a mock jurisdiction; and is continually forced to submit to an arbitrary tyrant, who, rejecting her fixed and temperate laws, is guided only by the dangerous impulse of his own violent and uncontroulable wishes."
preview | full record— Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)
Date: 1795
"Even there the passions reign; but they rove through the mind like murmuring, winds through barren and gloomy regions."
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)