Date: 1776
"O Lucy, if you ever loved me, strive, I conjure you, to assuage her gentle sorrows, and pour the balm of friendship on her wounded heart!"
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"I know not why, but my spirits are uncommonly low at present, there is no nostrum for a mind diseased, and therefore your kind wish for your suffering friends is vain."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1777
Compliance may be a balsam to the mind
preview | full record— Savage, Mary (fl. 1763-1777)
Date: 1777
"Study, as it rescues the mind from an inordinate fondness for gaming, dress, and public amusements, is an oeconomical propensity; for a lady may read at much less expence than she can play at cards; as it requires some application, it gives the mind an habit of industry; as it is a relief agains...
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: 1777
"It is true, the mind, as well as the eye, can take in objects larger than itself; but this is only true of great minds: for a man of low capacity, who considers a consummate genius, resembles one, who seeing a column for the first time, and standing at too great a distance to take in the whole o...
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: 1777
"Good sense has not so piercing an eye, but it has as clear a sight: it does not penetrate so deeply, but as far as it does see, it discerns distinctly."
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: 1778, 1779
"I yield, therefore, to the necessity which compels my reluctant acquiescence, and shall now turn all my thoughts upon considering of such methods for the conducting this enterprize, as may be most conducive to the happiness of my child, and least liable to wound her sensibility."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"I must be divested, not merely of a filial piety, but of all humanity, could I ever think upon this subject, and not be wounded to the soul."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"But I will not dwell upon a subject which almost compels from me reflections that cannot but be wounding to a heart so formed for filial tenderness as my Evelina's."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)