Date: 1778, 1779
"I was myself almost equally disturbed, by the croud of confused ideas that occured to me."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: August, September, and October, 1779
"Thus it happened with me on the present occasion; and I found my ideas suddenly drawn from the sermon in my hand and (in their vagabond way) hurrying over the birth, parentage, education, and situation of the reverend penman."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 1782
"Here tranquility once more made its abode the heart of Cecilia; that heart so long torn with anguish, suspense and horrour!"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: w. 1782, 1786, 1816
"All the stories of malignant Dives and dismal Goules thronged into her memory: but, her curiosity was, notwithstanding, more predominant than her fears."
preview | full record— Beckford, William (1760-1844)
Date: 1788
"Such a crowd of thoughts all at once rushed into Mary's mind, that she in vain attempted to express the sentiments which were most predominant."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"Her heart longed to receive a new guest; there was a void in it: accustomed to have some one to love, she was alone, and comfortless, if not engrossed by a particular affection."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"Oh! reason, thou boasted guide, why desert me, like the world, when I most need thy assistance!"
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"she hoped that absence and reflection, together with the conviction of it's being hopeless, would conquer this infant passion before it could gather strength wholly to ruin his repose."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)