Date: 1776
"My mind was totally occupied on the peculiar unhappiness of yours, in not being able to conquer a passion, which you acknowledge to be hopeless."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1777
"The love, to which at length I discovered my heart to be subject, had conquered without tumult, and become despotic under the semblance of freedom."
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1777
Attempts at gaiety may look like "a conquest over the natural pensiveness of [the] mind"
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1778, 1779
"I was totally spiritless and dejected; the idea of the approaching meeting,--and oh Sir, the idea of the approaching parting,--gave a heaviness to my heart, that I could neither conquer nor repress."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"Yet, Oh! how violent was the struggle which tore my conflicting soul, ere I could persuade myself to profit by the benevolence which you were so evidently disposed to exert in my favour!"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"The very idea was a dagger to my heart!"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1777, 1780
"He made but little reply; but the impression sunk deep into his rancorous heart; every word in Edmund's behalf was like a poisoned arrow that rankled in the wound, and grew every day more inflamed."
preview | full record— Reeve, Clara (1729-1807)
Date: 1782
"But still she wished with the utmost ardour to know the length of their acquaintance, how often they had met, when they had conversed, what notice he had taken of her, and how so dangerous a preference had invaded her heart."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"Did I suffer my eagerness to conquer my reason?"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"Compared with the general lot of human misery, Cecilia had suffered nothing; but compared with the exaltation of ideal happiness, she had suffered much; willingly, however, would she again have borne all that had distressed her, experienced the same painful suspence, endured the same melancholy ...
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)