Date: 1761
"We are indeed so much used to what they call poetical justice, that we are disappointed in the catastrophe of a fable, if every body concerned in it be not disposed of according to the sentence of that judge which we have set up in our own breasts"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1761
"His looks, and the tone of voice with which he spoke this, made my blood run cold, and my heart die within me."
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1761
"[M]any, therefore, may violate that rule of right, which the hand of the Almighty has written upon the living tablets of the heart"
preview | full record— Hawkesworth, John (bap. 1720, d. 1773)
Date: 1761
"[Y]et were his offences against me even greater than they are, your example would teach me to blot them all from my mind"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1761
"Your brother, narrow-hearted, inhuman wretch, I blot forever from my thoughts"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1761
One may be "by a blameless life, endeavouring to blot out the memory of her fault"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1761
Faulkland has "steeled my husband's heart against me, heaped infamy on my head, and loaded my mother's age with sorrow and remorse"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1761
"If the unfortunate Mr. Arnold sees his error, can you be so unchristian as to endeavour at steeling his wife's heart against him?"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1761
"This was the master-key to her behaviour, and once I had got it, which I soon did, it was easy to unlock her breast."
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1761
"Hitherto her memory had been wholly suspended by violent passions, which had crowded upon her in a rapid and uninterrupted succession, and the first gleam of recollection threw her into a new agony"
preview | full record— Hawkesworth, John (bap. 1720, d. 1773)