Date: 1796
"Camilla dissented not from the opinion; but the doctrine to which it was easy to agree, it was difficult to put in practice; and her ardent mind believed itself fettered for ever, and for ever unhappy."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1796
"Should he now, then, make her deem him exacting, and tenacious of prerogative? no; it might shackle the freedom of her mind in their future intercourse."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1796
"The speeches of the unsuspicious Eugenia, that a moment before would have past unheeded, now regaled her renovated fancy with a thousand amusing images, which so vigorously struggled against her sadness and her terrors, that they were soon nearly driven from the field by their sportive assailant...
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1797
"Fear thee, O Death!--Or hug the chains that bind / To joyless, cheerless life, her sick, reluctant mind?"
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1797
"Thus man, the giant who now held her in captivity, would shrink to the diminutiveness of a fairy; and she would experience, that his utmost force was unable to enchain her soul, or compel her to fear him, while he was destitute of virtue."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1798
"My mother I have never seen--never by affection's ties has she chained my soul to her's!"
preview | full record— Plumptre, Anne (1760-1818); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
"High themes the rapt concent'ring Thoughts explore, / Freed from external Pleasure's glittering chain."
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1799
"They have their reward; it was born with them: a free, a noble heart, which no chains can confine, which amid all the horrors of imprisonment is still free."
preview | full record— Lawrence, Rose (fl. 1799)
Date: 1799
"And by him is our union also sanctioned!--love too first chained our hearts together, and nature drew the bond more closely."
preview | full record— Plumptre, Anne (1760-1818); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
"I saw you stand in chains before Pizarro; I heard you speak like an ancient Roman; and at that moment the chains glided from your hands to my heart."
preview | full record— Plumptre, Anne (1760-1818); Kotzebue (1761-1819)