Date: 1794
"'O madam!' interrupted Emily, anticipating what she would have said, 'do not let me glance on that subject: do not let my mind be stained with a wish so shockingly self-interested.'"
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1794
"Hers was a silent anguish, weeping, yet enduring; not the wild energy of passion, inflaming imagination, bearing down the barriers of reason and living in a world of its own."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1794, 1797
"If you have reduced me to the necessity of again debating the same painful and gloomy question, if you cannot give that elasticity to my mind which will animate it to despise difficulty and steel it against injustice, however good your intentions may have been, I fear you have but imposed misery...
preview | full record— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809)
Date: 1795
One may have a heart of the noblest stamp
preview | full record— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809)
Date: 1795
"O ye slaves whom Massa beat, / Ye are stained with guilt within / As ye hope for mercy sweet / So forgive your Massas' Sin."
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: 1795
"The passions are the wings of spirit. Cold tranquillity the grave of thought"
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1795
"The mind of man, when disturbed, is a chaos, 'without form and void.' His ideas take no shape, or the formation he tries at swiftly dies."
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1795
"Millions of chimeras floated on my imagination all were rejected in speedy succession ere they became old enough to take the colour of reason; yet fancy will be busy till we are no more."
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1796
"These feeble sounds / Give not my soul's rich meaning; or my thought / Rises too boldly o'er the human line / Of alphabets (misused)."
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)