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"Age of Sensibility"
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Date: 1763
"This tender, this exquisite affection, has diffused a spirit through our whole lives, and given a charm to the most common occurrences; a charm to which the dulness of apathy, and the fever of guilty passion, are equally strangers."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1763
"I could have resisted her beauty only, but the mind which irradiates those speaking eyes"
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1763
"A thousand sweet ideas rise in my mind. My heart dances with pleasure."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1763
"If you now refuse, you have the heart of a tygress, and delight in the misery of others."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1763
"My soul is on fire at this insult: his age, his virtues protect him, but Lord Melvin--Let him avoid my fury."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1763
"The once smiling scene has a melancholy gloom, which strikes a damp through my inmost soul."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1763
"My tears streamed afresh when I beheld him, when I remembered the sweet hours we had passed together, the gay scenes which hope had painted to our hearts; I wept over the friend I had so loved, I pressed his cold hand to my lips."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1764
"Shall the winged Inhabitants of Air come tamely to the Hand that feeds them; and shall Man steel his Heart against all Impressions of Kindness, and all Sentiments of GRATITUDE?"
preview | full record— Gentleman, Francis (1728-1784)
Date: 1764
"In the Eye of Reason the Prostitution of the Mind, which certainly leads to it, is little less offensive than the Prostitution of the Person."
preview | full record— Gentleman, Francis (1728-1784)
Date: 1765 [1764]
"Manfred, who, though he had distinguished her by great indulgence, had imprinted her mind with terror from his causeless rigour to such amiable princesses as Hippolita and Matilda."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
