Date: 1719-1720, 1725
"But when he consider'd how much he had struggled, and how far he had been from being able to repel Desire, he began to wonder that it cou'd ever enter into his Thoughts, that there was even a Possibility for Woman, so much stronger in her Fancy, and weaker in her Judgment, to suppress the Influe...
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1795
"Lady Ruby is the loadstone that draws away every particle of steel that shou'd fortify my heart, and leaves it weaker than a woman's tear."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)