Date: 1787
"This was a ray of intelligence which pointed out to the discerning parent the path prescribed by nature."
preview | full record— Louise Florence Pétronille Tardieu d'Ésclavelles Épinay (marquise d') (1726-1783)
Date: 1788
"She could not write any more; she wished herself far distant from all human society; a thick gloom spread itself over her mind: but did not make her forget the very beings she wished to fly from."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"She could not write any more; she wished herself far distant from all human society; a thick gloom spread itself over her mind: but did not make her forget the very beings she wished to fly from."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"In moments of solitary sadness, a gleam of joy would dart across her mind."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"A ray of fire seemed to flash across the imagination of Delamere, and to inflame all his hopes."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1788
"Frequently, your coldness, your unkindness, gives me again to despondence and every lovely prospect I had suffered my imagination to draw is lost in clouds and darkness.'
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)