Date: 1797
"At the extravagance of her suspicions, however, and the weakness of her terrors, she blushed, and endeavoured to resist that propensity to fear, which nerves long pressed upon had occasioned in her mind."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1797
"Her heart was possessed by evil passions, and all her perceptions were distorted and discoloured by them, which, like a dark magician, had power to change the fairest scenes into those of gloom and desolation."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1797
"The subject of his waking thoughts still haunted his imagination, and the stranger, whose voice he had this night recognized as that of the prophet of Paluzzi, appeared before him."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: w. 1784, 1799
"Pleased she surveys her infant charge, / Beholds the mental powers enlarge, / And as the young ideas rise, / Directs their issues to the skies."
preview | full record— West, Jane (1758-1852)
Date: 1799
One may hie "From his own blank inanity"
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1800, 1806
"He is young, / And yet the stamp of thought so tempers youth, / That all its fires are faded"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1806
"On a shelf, / (Yclept a mantle-piece) a phial stands, / Half fill'd with potent spirits!--haunt the poet's restless brain, / And fill his mind with fancies whimsical."
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1797, 1806
"While shadows, blanks to reason's orb, / In dread succession haunt the brain"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1806
"Where is the stamp which marks th' immortal soul, / And places thee above the growling brute?"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1814
"[H]er mind became cool enough to seek all the comfort that pride and self-revenge could give."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)