Date: 1790

"Deadly ideas crowded upon their imaginations, and inspired a terror which scarcely allowed them to breathe."

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

Date: 1790

"They compared this with the foregoing circumstance of the figure and the light which had appeared; their imaginations kindled wild conjectures, and they submitted their opinions to Madame, entreating her to inform them sincerely, whether she believed that disembodied spirits were ever permitted ...

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

Date: 1790

"The image of Vereza, notwithstanding, would frequently intrude upon her fancy; and awakening the recollection of happy emotions, would call forth a sigh which all her efforts could not suppress."

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

Date: 1790

"A thousand sweet and mingled emotions pressed upon her heart, yet she scarcely dared to trust the evidence of sight."

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

Date: 1790

"The scene she had witnessed, raised in the marchioness a tumult of dreadful emotions. Love, hatred, and jealousy, raged by turns in her heart, and defied all power of controul."

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

Date: 1790

"Meanwhile Hippolitus, who had passed the night in a state of sleepless anxiety, watched with busy impatience, an opportunity of more fully disclosing to Julia, the passion which glowed in his heart."

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

Date: 1790

"Ferdinand, these circumstances are not to be doubted, and conviction opens upon my mind a flow of extacy I never knew till now."

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

Date: 1790

"The solemn air which the marquis assumed when he commanded him to attend, had deeply impressed his mind."

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

Date: 1790

"This speech fell like the dart of death upon the heart of Julia."

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

Date: 1790

"The love of power was his ruling passion;--with him no gentle or generous sentiment meliorated the harshness of authority, or directed it to acts of beneficence."

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