Date: 1796
"Her form and her mind were of equal elasticity."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1796
"The form and the mind of Lavinia were in the most perfect harmony."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1796
"How, at a moment like this, could she make her purposed confession to her father, whose wounded mind demanded all she could offer of condolement?"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1796
"I shall paint your meeting in my 'mind's eye,' see you again restored to the sunshine of her fondness, and while away my solitary languor with reveries far more soothing than any that I have yet experienced at Belfont."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1796
"An idea of any active service invigorates the body as well as the mind."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1799
"And, indeed, there is so much truth in the remark, that till women shall be more reasonably educated, and till the native growth of their mind shall cease to be stinted and cramped, we have no juster ground for pronouncing that their understanding has already reached its highest attainable point...
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)