Date: 1719-1720, 1725
"A most susceptible and tender Heart? -- Yes, you may feel it throb, it beats against my Breast, like an imprison'd Bird, and fain would burst it's Cage! to fly to you, the Aim of all its Wishes!"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1719-1720, 1725
"Nor was he less dissolv'd in Rapture, both their Souls seem'd to take Wing together, and left their Bodies motionless, as unworthy to bear a Part in their more elevated Bliss."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1794
"The slightest breath of dishonour would have stung him to the very soul"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1797
"His numerous avocations and interests, however, seemed to prevent such anxiety from preying upon his mind; and, having dismissed persons in search of Vivaldi, he passed his time in the usual routine of company and the court."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1855, 1856
"The body was burned to ashes; but for many days, the head, that hive of subtlety, fixed on a pole in the Plaza, met, unabashed, the gaze of the whites; and across the Plaza looked toward St. Bartholomew's church, in whose vaults slept then, as now, the recovered bones of Aranda; and across the R...
preview | full record— Melville, Herman (1819-1891)