Date: 1763
"A thousand sweet ideas rise in my mind. My heart dances with pleasure."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1763
"If you now refuse, you have the heart of a tygress, and delight in the misery of others."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1763
"My soul is on fire at this insult: his age, his virtues protect him, but Lord Melvin--Let him avoid my fury."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1763
"The once smiling scene has a melancholy gloom, which strikes a damp through my inmost soul."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1763
"My tears streamed afresh when I beheld him, when I remembered the sweet hours we had passed together, the gay scenes which hope had painted to our hearts; I wept over the friend I had so loved, I pressed his cold hand to my lips."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1764
"Shall the winged Inhabitants of Air come tamely to the Hand that feeds them; and shall Man steel his Heart against all Impressions of Kindness, and all Sentiments of GRATITUDE?"
preview | full record— Gentleman, Francis (1728-1784)
Date: 1764
"In the Eye of Reason the Prostitution of the Mind, which certainly leads to it, is little less offensive than the Prostitution of the Person."
preview | full record— Gentleman, Francis (1728-1784)
Date: 1765 [1764]
"Manfred, who, though he had distinguished her by great indulgence, had imprinted her mind with terror from his causeless rigour to such amiable princesses as Hippolita and Matilda."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: 1765 [1764]
"Arriving there, he sought the gloomiest shades, as best suited to the pleasing melancholy that reigned in his mind."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: 1765 [1764]
"Alone in so dismal a place, her mind imprinted with all the terrible events of the day, hopeless of escaping, expecting every moment the arrival of Manfred, and far from tranquil on knowing she was within reach of somebody, she knew not whom, who for some cause seemed concealed thereabouts,...
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)