Date: 1788
"[A guardian] claps a pen in my hand, and ties me like a seal to his ugly parchment, while my heart can receive no impression, but the idea of my beloved Aircourt"
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)
Date: 1788
"True love purifies the soul from every base alloy."
preview | full record— Cobb, James (1756-1818)
Date: 1788
"O yes, this is his valet that Lady Jane mentioned, this is her O'Donovan and my Aircourt, but my heart is steel'd against him"
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)
Date: 1788
"The mind's disease, perhaps, I'm not less a stranger to--Oh! trust the noble patient to my care."
preview | full record— Inchbald [née Simpson], Elizabeth (1753-1821)
Date: 1788
"Within the heart which love illumes, / And blesses with his sacred rays, / If meaner passion e'er presumes, / It fades before the hallow'd blaze."
preview | full record— Cobb, James (1756-1818)
Date: 1788
Lovers are governed by Cupid and must obey the "laws of a monarch, whose throne is the heart"
preview | full record— Cobb, James (1756-1818)
Date: 1788
"I own that my heart yields like wax to the impression of the little god"
preview | full record— Cobb, James (1756-1818)
Date: 1788
A heart of wax may be "soon hot and soon cold, and yields to a different impression every day"
preview | full record— Cobb, James (1756-1818)
Date: 1789
"A passion like mine, makes the heart rebellious--it will love on--it will hope, in spite of the rules cold reason dictates"
preview | full record— Inchbald [née Simpson], Elizabeth (1753-1821)