Date: 1782
"Here tranquility once more made its abode the heart of Cecilia; that heart so long torn with anguish, suspense and horrour!"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1785
"Unwelcome is the first bright dawn of light / To the dark soul; impatient, she rejects, / And fain would push the heavenly stranger back; / She loathes the cranny which admits the day; / Confused, afraid of the intruding guest; / Disturbed, unwilling to receive the beam, / Which to herself her n...
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)