Date: 1778, 1779
"Let me, therefore, prepare for disappointment those who, in the perusal of these sheets, entertain the gentle expectation of being transported to the fantastic regions of Romance, where Fiction is coloured by all the gay tints of luxurious Imagination, where Reason is an outcast, and where the s...
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"Young, animated, entirely off your guard, and thoughtless of consequences, imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"I was myself almost equally disturbed, by the croud of confused ideas that occured to me."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1782
"Here tranquility once more made its abode the heart of Cecilia; that heart so long torn with anguish, suspense and horrour!"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1788
"Such a crowd of thoughts all at once rushed into Mary's mind, that she in vain attempted to express the sentiments which were most predominant."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"Her heart longed to receive a new guest; there was a void in it: accustomed to have some one to love, she was alone, and comfortless, if not engrossed by a particular affection."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"Oh! reason, thou boasted guide, why desert me, like the world, when I most need thy assistance!"
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"she hoped that absence and reflection, together with the conviction of it's being hopeless, would conquer this infant passion before it could gather strength wholly to ruin his repose."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)