Date: 1776
"But remember, my sister--"They never knew to love, that knew to change;" and be assured, that no other woman can ever make the slightest impression upon the heart of your sincerely affectionate brother."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"When Dr. Johnson speaks, we listen with respect and admiration, and feel our minds impressed with such an attentive kind of veneration, as I imagine was paid to the oracles of old."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"No, Stanley! neither Miss Harrison, nor any other woman I have seen in this kingdom, has made any impression on my heart; tho' I acknowledge I have beheld much beauty here, and that the lady I have named has charms sufficient, both of mind and person, to inspire the tenderest passion in a vacant...
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"But I have other visions still more dreadful--spectres, indeed, that have long stampt indelible impressions on my heart and mind."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1777
"These words cannot be forgotten! they press upon my mind with the sacredness of a parent's dying instructions!"
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1777
"His youth has been enlightened by letters, and informed by travel; but what is still more valuable, his mind has been early impressed with the principles of manly virtue."
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1778, 1779
"Indeed, I could but ill support her former yearly visits to the respectable mansion at Howard Grove; pardon me, dear Madam, and do not think me insensible of the honour which your Ladyship's condescension confers upon us both; but so deep is the impression which the misfortunes of her mother hav...
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"But I am happy to observe, that he seems to have made no impression upon your heart, and therefore a very little care and prudence may secure you from those designs which I fear he has formed."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"For, when I observed the artless openness, the ingenuous simplicity of her nature; when I saw that her guileless and innocent soul fancied all the world to be pure and disinterested as herself, and that her heart was open to every impression with which love, pity, or art might assail it."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"For oh, if this weak heart of mine had been penetrated with too deep an impression of his merit,--my peace and happiness had been lost for ever!"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)