Date: 1783, 1810
"As when thou call'st the shuddering thoughts to mourn / O'er talents wither'd in the untimely urn; / To grieve that Penury's resistless storm / Beat cold and deadly o'er the shrinking form, / Where mighty Genius had those powers enshrined, / Whose reign is boundless o'er each feeling mind; / To ...
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Date: 1788
"But against this dangerous attack she endeavoured to fortify that sensible heart, by considering the probable event of her yielding to it."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1788
"Cursed be the hour I first indulged it, and cursed the weakness of mind that cannot conquer it!"
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Date: 1788
"she hoped that absence and reflection, together with the conviction of it's being hopeless, would conquer this infant passion before it could gather strength wholly to ruin his repose."
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Date: 1788
"I attempted, indeed, at the beginning of our acquaintance--ah! how vainly attempted!--to conquer a passion which I believed was rendered hopeless by your prior engagement."
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