Date: 1773
"I know not, said he, most lovely of women, whether I should venture to express the sensations of my heart at this moment; that respect which ever attends a love so sincere as mine, has hitherto kept me silent; but the late accident, in which all that I hold dear was endangered, has opened every ...
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1773
"A gush of tenderness swelled her heart at the sight--She burst into tears--But the crisis of her fate was come--and she entered the carriage, which drove off at a furious rate, Camplin commanding the postilion to make as much speed as was possible."
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1774, rev. 1787, 1779 in English
"His repeated promises confirm her hopes; his fondness encreases her passion; her whole soul is lost and drowned in pleasure; her heart is all rapture: At length she stretches out her arms to embrace the object of her vows--All is vanished away; her lover forsakes her."
preview | full record— Goethe, Johann Wolfgang (1749-1832)
Date: 1776
"Not that I wou'd encourage the modern philosophy, which reduces all virtue to self-interest; for if I may hazard an unborrowed simile, the liberal mind may be compared to the Nile, which enriches the soil, from its own abundance, without requiring any return."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1777
"My father was far from being so once; but misfortune has now given his mind a tincture of sadness."
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1777
One may perceive "a tincture of melancholy enthusiasm" in the mind
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
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: 1778, 1779
"Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"'Deny me not, most charming of women," cried he, 'deny me not this only moment that is lent me, to pour forth my soul into your gentle ears,--to tell you how much I suffer from your absence,--how much I dread your displeasure,--and how cruelly I am affected by your coldness!'"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"'Oh, Sir,' exclaimed I, 'that you could but read my heart!--that you could but see the filial tenderness and concern with which it overflows! you would not then talk thus,--you would not then banish me your presence, and exclude me from your affection!'"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)