Date: 1777
"Col. Dormer, though he knew the human heart, had never yet thought of taking his nieces in more active scenes of life: he had fallen into the common mistake of people past the meridian of their days, who, feeling tranquillity their greatest good, do not sufficiently reflect that it is insipid at...
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Date: 1777
"She saw something like just drawing in the dark shades of his pencil, though the lines seemed a good deal exaggerated: she reflected, she doubted; but, after settling a balance in her mind, the found her own scale preponderate."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1777
"The eyes were the index of the mind--his had said--Good heavens! what had they not said?"
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1777
"Her mind, not less pure and unsullied, was obvious and transparent as the dear rivulet in the sequestered vale."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1777
"Lord Melvile had courage to persevere in advancing, though Dorignon's idea perpetually obtruded itself on his imagination; the charms of her form indeed were not such as justified his infatuation; she was, in respect to personal attractions, much below mediocrity; but her sprightly sallies, her ...
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Date: 1777
"His heart, for a moment, revolted at the idea of seduction; but he soon silenced the unwelcome monitor."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1777
"He was born with better feelings; he was naturally humane, tender, compassionate but he had, unfortunately for himself, been educated by a father, who, as we have already observed, had taken the most unwearied pains to eradicate from his expanding mind those social affections which the Deity has...
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Date: 1814
"The mind which does not struggle against itself under one circumstance, would find objects to distract it in the other, I believe; and the influence of the place and of example may often rouse better feelings than are begun with."
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Date: 1814
"[H]er mind became cool enough to seek all the comfort that pride and self-revenge could give."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1814
"The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient--at others, so bewildered and so weak--and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond controul!"
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