Date: 1753
"Though the soul, like a hermit in his cell, sits quiet in the bosom, unruffled by any tempest of its own, it suffers from the rude blasts of others faults"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1754
One may take pains to conquer "sudden gusts of passion"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1759
"Imlac was delighted to find that the sage's understanding was breaking through its mists, and resolved to detain him from the planets till he should forget his task of ruling them, and reason should recover its original influence."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1762
"One only hope remains, that you, my first and dearest friend, will not abandon me; that whatever cloud of melancholy may hang over my mind, yet you will still bear with me, and remove your abode to a place where I may have the consolation of your company."
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1763
"The once smiling scene has a melancholy gloom, which strikes a damp through my inmost soul."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1765 [1764]
"Manfred, though persuaded, like his wife, that the vision had been no work of fancy, recovered a little from the tempest of mind into which so many strange events had thrown him."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: 1778, 1779
If "I may now judge of the time to come, by the present state of my mind, the calm will be succeeded by a storm, of which I dread the violence"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"He went, and presently returning, produced a great quantity of hair, in such a nasty condition, that I was amazed she would take it; and the man as he delivered it to her, found it impossible to keep his countenance; which she had no sooner observed, than all her stormy passions were again raised."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"The first fortnight that I passed here, was so quiet, so serene, that it gave me reason to expect a settled calm during my stay; but if I may now judge of the time to come, by the present state of my mind, the calm will be succeeded by a storm, of which I dread the violence!"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"Yet oh!--shall I not, in this last farewell, which thou wilt not read till every stormy passion is extinct,--and the kind grave has embosomed all my sorrows,--shall I not offer to the man once so dear to me, a ray of consolation to those afflictions he has in reserve?"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)