Date: 1709 [1708]
"Beautiful Looks are rul'd by fickle Minds; / And Summer Seas are turn'd by sudden Winds"
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1709 [1708]
"With Wishes rais'd, with Jealousies opprest / (Alternate Tyrants of the Human Breast) / By one great Tryal He resolves to prove / The Faith of Woman, and the Force of Love."
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Date: October 15, 1772
"If thou refuse our vows to hear / And steel thy heart to ev'ry pray'r, / A cruel frozen maid"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1796
"The mind of a young woman lady should be clear and unsullied, like a sheet of white paper, or her own fairer face"
preview | full record— Hays, Mary (1760-1843)
Date: 1816
"It darted through her, with the speed of an arrow, that Mr Knightley must marry no one but herself!"
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1816
"Her mind was divided between two ideas--her own former conversations with him about Miss Fairfax; and poor Harriet."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1816
"While he spoke, Emma's mind was most busy, and, with all the wonderful velocity of thought, had been able--and yet without losing a word--to catch and comprehend the exact truth of the whole."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)