Date: 1788
"Nothing was a stronger proof of the deep root which his passion had taken in his heart, than the influence Emmeline had obtained over his ungovernable and violent spirit, hitherto unused to controul, and accustomed from his infancy to exert over his own family the most boundless despotism."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1788
"The seeds of jealousy and mistrust thus skillfully sown, could hardly fail of taking root in an heart so full of sensibility, and a temper so irritable as his."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1791, 1794
"I will wear a smile on my face, though the thorn rankles in my heart."
preview | full record— Rowson, Susanna (1762-1828)
Date: 1793, 1794
"When future years in fancy's mirror rose, / What pleasure 'twas to lead thy opening mind, / Where virtue blossoms, and religion blows!"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (fl. 1793) [Rev.]
Date: 1794
"But, though misfortune had somewhat conquered the asperities of Madame Montoni's temper, and, by increasing her cares for herself, had taught her to feel in some degree for others, the capricious love of rule, which nature had planted and habit had nourished in her heart, was not subdued."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1796
"The second was still too young to benefit by my instructions; but in the heart of my eldest I laboured unceasingly to plant those principles which might enable him to avoid the crimes of his parents."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"I suffered not my grief at this circumstance to take root in my mind."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"Extreme simplicity prevented her from perceiving the aim to which the monk's insinuations tended; but the excellent morals which she owed to Elvira's care, the solidity and correctness of her understanding, and a strong sense of what was right, implanted in her heart by nature, made her feel tha...
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)