Date: 1782
"He could not conceal from me that the seat of his disorder was his mind; and I could not know that, without readily conjecturing the cause, when I saw who was his father's guest, and when I knew what was his father's character."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"Cecilia's eyes glistened at this speech; 'Yes,' said she, 'he long since said 'tis suspence, 'tis hope, that make the misery of life,---for there the Passions have all power, and Reason has none.'"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"A weight was removed from his mind which had nearly borne down even his remotest hopes."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"The life I led at the cottage was the life of a savage; no intercourse with society, no consolation from books; my mind locked up, every source dried of intellectual delight, and no enjoyment in my power but from sleep and from food."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"A plan by which so great a revolution was to be wrought in her mind, was not to be effected by any sudden effort of magnanimity, but by a regular and even tenour of courage mingled with prudence."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"She hastily obeyed the summons; the constant image of her own mind, Delvile, being already present to her, and a thousand wild conjectures upon what had brought him back, rapidly occurring to her."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"I was bewitched, I was infatuated! common sense was estranged by the seduction of a chimera; my understanding was in a ferment from the ebullition of my imagination!"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1783, 1785, 1789
"Indeed, the real seat of all superiority, even of manners, must be placed in the mind: dignified sentiments, superior courage, accompanied with genuine and universal courtesy, are always necessary to constitute the real gentleman; and where these are wanting, it is the greatest absurdity to thin...
preview | full record— Day, Thomas (1748-1789)
Date: w. 1782, 1786, 1816
"One of these beneficent Genii, assuming, without delay, the exterior of a shepherd, more renowned for his piety than all the derviches and santons of the region, took his station near a flock of white sheep, on the slope of a hill; and began to pour forth, from his flute, such airs of pathetic m...
preview | full record— Beckford, William (1760-1844)
Date: 1787
"Thus our thoughts are our most sacred and dearest property; and to read a bit of paper, as you call it, that does not belong to us, that contains thoughts not addressed to us, is to do an act that has all the deformity of treason, meanness, and infamy; in fine, the most vile and dishonourable ac...
preview | full record— Louise Florence Pétronille Tardieu d'Ésclavelles Épinay (marquise d') (1726-1783)