Date: 1782
"But I'll make him believe that it's necessary, in order to give him something to think of, for really his poor head is so vacant, that I am sure if one might but play upon it with sticks, it would sound just like a drum."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"Oh if wholly unchecked were the happiness I now have in view, if no foul storm sometimes lowered over the prospect, and for a moment obscured its brightness, how could my heart find room for joy so superlative? The whole world might rise against me as the first man in it who had nothing left to ...
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"Left now to herself, sensations unfelt before filled the heart of Cecilia."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"Not all her attempted philosophy had calmed her mind like this plan; in merely refusing indulgence to grief, she had only locked it up in her heart, where eternally struggling for vent, she was almost overpowered by restraining it."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"She was now indeed more unhappy than even in the period of her forgetfulness, yet her mind was no longer filled with the restless turbulence of hope, which still more than despondency unfitted it for thinking of others."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"She determined, as much as was in her power, in quitting her desultory dwellings, to empty her mind of the transactions which had passed in them, and upon entering a house where she was permanently to reside, to make the expulsion of her past sorrows, the basis upon which to establish her future...
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: w. 1782, 1786, 1816
"They very politely invited Bababalouk to be of their party; but his head was full of other concerns."
preview | full record— Beckford, William (1760-1844)
Date: w. 1782, 1786, 1816
"The falling waters filled his soul with dejection, and his tears trickled down the jasmines he had caught from Nouronihar, and placed in his inflamed bosom."
preview | full record— Beckford, William (1760-1844)
Date: w. 1782, 1786, 1816
"The unexpected arrival of the Caliph and the splendour that marked his appearance, had already filled with emotion the ardent soul of Nouronihar."
preview | full record— Beckford, William (1760-1844)
Date: w. 1782, 1786, 1816
"Instantaneously, the haughty forehead of the intrepid princess became corrugated with agony: she uttered a tremendous yell; and fixed, no more to be withdrawn, her right hand upon her heart, which was become a receptacle of eternal fire."
preview | full record— Beckford, William (1760-1844)