Date: 1752
"Upon the whole, however, she past a miserable and sleepless Night, her gentle Mind torn and distracted with various and contending Passions, distressed with Doubts, and wandring in a kind of Twilight, which presented her only Objects of different Degrees of Horrour, and where black Despair close...
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1790
"A variety of strong and contending emotions struggled at her breast, and suppressed the power of utterance."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)