Date: 1762
"They were received on their arrival by a maiden sister of Mr. Morgan's, who till then had kept his house, and he intended should still remain in it; for as through the partiality of an aunt, who had bred her up, she was possessed of a large fortune, her brother, in whom avarice was the ruling pa...
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1762
"The tenderest affections of her heart were too much concerned in what she had done, to leave her the power of feeling any apprehensions of poverty; all the evils that attend it then appeared to her so entirely external, that she beheld them with the calm philosophy of a stoic, and not from a ver...
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1762
"Reason governed her thoughts and actions, nor could the greatest flow of spirits make her for a moment forget propriety."
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1763
"I will leave Belmont: her will is the law of my heart; yet a few days I must give to love."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1768
"When the situation is, what we would wish, nothing is so ill-timed as to hint at the circumstances which make it so: you thank Fortune, continued she--you had reason--the heart knew it, and was satisfied; and who but an English philosopher would have sent notices of it to the brain to reverse th...
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1768
"In saying this, I was making not so much La Fleur's eloge, as my own, having been in love with one princess or another almost all my life, and I hope I shall go on so, till I die, being firmly persuaded, that if ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another...
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Date: 1769
"Do you think it possible, Lucy, for a Frenchwoman to love? is not vanity the ruling passion of their hearts?"
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1769
We may blush at past follies and indiscretions "when the empire of reason begins"
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1769
"For my part, I think no politics worth attending to but those of the little commonwealth of woman: if I can maintain my empire over hearts, I leave the men to quarrel for every thing else."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1769
"My voyage ought undoubtedly to be considered as an abdication: I am to all intents and purposes dead in law as a lover; and the lady has a right to consider her heart as vacant, and to proceed to a new election."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)