Date: 1776

"Banished be the vile idea from every honest breast, and may his couch be ever strewed with thorns, that can for his sport, create a pang, in the bosom of unsuspecting innocence!"

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1776

"Ah, Stanley! I have no hopes of making any impression on her heart, either at Delville, or in Berkeley-square."

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1776

"Besides, my Lucy is a perfect Columbus in the terra incognita of lovers hearts, and discovered her faithful Stanley's fond attachment in his speaking eyes, for many months before his tongue revealed it."

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1776

"Alarmed as all my passions were, her gentle accents vibrated upon my heart, and calmed each throbbing pulse."

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1776

"Not that I wou'd encourage the modern philosophy, which reduces all virtue to self-interest; for if I may hazard an unborrowed simile, the liberal mind may be compared to the Nile, which enriches the soil, from its own abundance, without requiring any return."

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1776

"If you cannot like my brother, tell him so, and perhaps the wound which his self-love must receive from your denial, may rouse him to attempt the conquest of an hopeless passion."

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1776

"I acknowledge the unreasonableness of my pursuit, but when had reason power to conquer love?"

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1776

"The being a prisoner, was the only species of calamity she had not yet experienced; her mind was impressed with horror at the idea, and whilst her worse than savage landlady, went out to seek a constable, she stole softly out of the house, and fled she knew not whither."

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1776

"But that if my promising never to enter into those engagements, with any other person, which I declined with him, could make him happy, he might depend upon my word; provided he wou'd in return, give up the thoughts of abandoning his country, family and friends, on my account, but endeavour to c...

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1776

"Though I wou'd by no means have advised your pursuing Lady Juliana to her retreat, I congratulate you on the conclusion of your romance; for surely my friend will now exert himself to conquer a passion, which he must own it wou'd be the height of folly to indulge any further."

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)