Date: 1790
"In vain we may lament the loss of our tranquillity; for peace, like the wandering dove, has forsaken its habitation in the bosom, and will return no more."
preview | full record— Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)
Date: 1791, 1794
"I foolishly thought, some few years since, that every sense of joy was buried in the graves of my dear partner and my son; but my Lucy, by her filial affection, soothed my soul to peace, and this dear Charlotte has twined herself round my heart, and opened such new scenes of delight to my view, ...
preview | full record— Rowson, Susanna (1762-1828)
Date: 1791, 1794
"My daily employment is to think of you and weep, to pray for your happiness and deplore my own folly: my nights are scarce more happy, for if by chance I close my weary eyes, and hope some small forgetfulness of sorrow, some little time to pass in sweet oblivion, fancy, still waking, wafts me ho...
preview | full record— Rowson, Susanna (1762-1828)
Date: 1791, 1794
"Such were the dreadful images that haunted her distracted mind, and nature was sinking fast under the dreadful malady which medicine had no power to remove."
preview | full record— Rowson, Susanna (1762-1828)
Date: 1791
"Madame forbore for the present to ask any questions that might lead to a discovery of her connections, or seem to require an explanation of the late adventure, which now furnishing her with a new subject of reflection, the sense of her own misfortunes pressed less heavily upon her mind."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1791
"'Long suffering,' said La Motte, 'has subdued in our minds that elastic energy, which repels the pressure of evil, and dances to the bound of joy.'"
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1792
"Every thing encourages me on your account, while my own soul, tormented by an unlucky passion, has entirely lost its balance."
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Date: 1794
"A train of gloomy ideas haunted her mind, till she fell asleep."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1794
"Retired to her lonely cabin, her melancholy thoughts still hovered round the body of her deceased parent; and, when she sunk into a kind of slumber, the images of her waking mind still haunted her fancy."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1794
"Such scenes are indeed, to the mind, like 'those faint traces which the memory bears of music that is past.'"
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)