Date: 1736

"Thus ended Emoe her little Narrative, and returned to her former Demonstrations of Joy, for the sight of her Royal Mistress; but how impossible is it to describe the Transport with which her Words had fill'd the Soul of Eovaai: to find, in the Preserver of her Life, the Preserver of her whole Pe...

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1736

"They stood for some moments gazing at each other at a distance; then bow'd and approach'd, but without speaking; the extraordinary Emotions which hurried thro' their Souls, (as they afterwards confess'd) kept both in a profound Silence."

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1736

"Here I had an Opportunity of observing how little the Toils of the Body are to be held in competition with those of the Mind."

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1736

"Have you not suffered your Heart to be usurp'd by the Charms of some Beauty?"

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1736

"And as I am resolved, in spite of the Pleasure I take in gazing on them, to condemn myself to an eternal Absence, and to do every thing in my power to obliterate all Ideas from my Heart, that may render it an unworthy Offering to the Owner of this Jewel."

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1741

"[F]ly for ever from my Sight, lest I stamp Deformity on every Limb, and make thy Body as hideous as thy Soul"

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1744

"but the French being a people in whom the love of glory is the predominant passion, were more than any other nation charmed with the greatness of that prince's soul."

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1744

"[W]e are here idle at present, but shall not long be so; and you will have occasions enough to prove your courage, and gratify that love of arms which, my brother informs me, is the predominant passion of your soul."

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1744

Beauty and the charms of a woman's conversation can make a conquest of a lover's heart far more complete than any prospect of interest could have done

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1744

"[Y]our eyes, at first sight, subdued my heart; but your virtue has since made a conquest of my soul"

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)