Date: 1792
"I must steel my heart, Fairfax, when I go to the encounter; must recapitulate all my wrongs."
preview | full record— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809)
Date: 1792
"I know it to be folly, and I will endeavour to steel my heart against this as well as other mistakes."
preview | full record— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809)
Date: 1792
"I have just risen from a conversation which has made a deep impression on my mind."
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Date: 1793
"My sanctuary is in my mind."
preview | full record— Dibdin, Charles (bap. 1745, d. 1814)
Date: 1793
"Her mind was a kind of circulating library in little, and I sincerely wish romances were always attended with the same good effects they produced in her; for there is scarcely a good moral inculcated by them that she did not act up to."
preview | full record— Dibdin, Charles (bap. 1745, d. 1814)
Date: 1793
"I am looking, madam,' said she, 'over the catalogue of my mind, to see if I have ever read any thing like it"
preview | full record— Dibdin, Charles (bap. 1745, d. 1814)
Date: 1793
"She said she foresaw that, if his heart was not steel and adamant, he would be ruined; that she had read his mind thoroughly, and plainly saw that the only vice he had in the world was want of deceit."
preview | full record— Dibdin, Charles (bap. 1745, d. 1814)
Date: 1794
"As her imagination painted with melancholy touches, the deserted plains of Troy, such as they appeared in this after-day, she reanimated the landscape with the following little story."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1794
"Adjoining the library was a green-house, stored with scarce and beautiful plants; for one of the amusements of St. Aubert was the study of botany, and among the neighbouring mountains, which afforded a luxurious feast to the mind of the naturalist, he often passed the day in the pursuits of his ...
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1794
"The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. Store it with ideas, teach it the pleasure of thinking; and the temptations of the world without, will be counteracted by the gratifications derived from the world within."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)