Date: 1790

"[W]hile I live, your generosity and valour shall be engraven on my heart"

— Reynolds, Frederick (1764-1841)

Date: 1790

"A shadowy sequestered dell appeared buried deep among the rocks, and in the bottom was seen a lake, whose clear bosom reflected the impending cliffs, and the beautiful luxuriance of the overhanging shades."

— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)

Date: 1790

"'And these my sisters had not hearts of steel, / 'And might be griev'd at my delay"

— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)

Date: 1790

"Yet ruthless Rulers! hearts of stone and steel!"

— Merry, Robert (1755-1798)

Date: 1790

"Still through the deep'ning gloom of bow'ry shades / To Fancy's eye fantastic forms appear"

— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)

Date: 1790

"Or novelty, fair pleasure's youthful queen, / Gives fresh allurements to each splendid scene, / To these, in fancy's varying mirror shown, / Amusement charms with beauties not its own."

— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)

Date: 1790

"And o'er Imagination's gloomy glass, / Despair's mute sons like Banquo's visions pass"

— Merry, Robert (1755-1798)

Date: 1790, 1806

"Proud may he be who nobly acts his part, / Who boasts the empire of each subject's heart."

— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)

Date: 1790?

"Be careful, greatly careful, my dear child, that familiarity with the sight, does not make you grow indifferent to the consequences of such actions, and so tempt you to partake of the guilt: but let the advice contained in the following sheets sink deep into your mind, and be a shield to defend ...

— Kilner, Dorothy (1755-1836)

Date: 1790?

"That you, my young friend, may be enabled, by the Grace of God, to preserve your heart pure and unsullied, as at the moment of quitting your parents roof, through every temptation which may beset you; and that it may, like metal purified in the furnace, shine forth so much the brighter from triu...

— Kilner, Dorothy (1755-1836)