Date: 1725
"Forgive the harsh Expression, for believe, of all Mankind, I cou'd esteem you as a Friend--but, alas! my Heart wants room to entertain you as a tender Guest; long e're I knew your Merits it was taken up, all the Affections of my Soul are riveted to another--to him I am bound by all the ties of H...
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1725
"It would be as impossible to describe the Astonishment, and pleas'd Admiration, which fill'd the Soul of Felisinda, at so uncommon a proof of disinterested Affection, as it wou'd the Vexation of Alvario, when by the same Messenger he receiv'd a Letter from Don Carlos, containing these Lines."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1725
"From that she pass'd to a Description of the Happiness of mutual Affection; -- the unspeakable Extasy of those who meet with equal Ardency; and represented it in Colours so lively, and disclos'd by the Gestures with which her Words were accompany'd, and the Accent of her Voice so true a Feeling ...
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1726
One may find "his own Affections ... impossible to conquer, or bring into any bounds of Reason."
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1726
"But as we are always ready to flatter our selves, so did our Lover, and took the Lady's Courtesie for Kindness, and her smiling Looks for interiour Affection."
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1726
"[H]e promis'd me a thousand Fineries, gave me an handful of Gold, told me I should have a fine House of my own, a Coach and Servants, with all manner of Imbellishments to grace and adorn my Beauty; which Beauty (continu'd he) has chain'd my Heart, ever since the moment I beheld it in the Milline...
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1726
"At that Answer I sat me down upon my Chest and burst into Tears, and had such a Combat in my Mind that bereav'd me of the Power even of thinking for some time."
preview | full record— Chetwood, William Rufus (d. 1766)
Date: 1726
" For as the Face is the Index of the Mind, I am of Opinion, a Person of nice Judgment and Observation may discover a false Passion, with as much ease, as a Jeweller would distinguish the different Species of Stones (if we may call them so.)"
preview | full record— Chetwood, William Rufus (d. 1766)
Date: 1726
"When she came back from Supper, I had got up and had drest my self; but the Combat in my Mind had really disorder'd my Body, which she soon saw."
preview | full record— Chetwood, William Rufus (d. 1766)
Date: 1726
"But the Occasion had imprinted in my Mind a lively Idea of him."
preview | full record— Chetwood, William Rufus (d. 1766)