The quotations, citations, and other references made by women writers in the WWO collection.
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| Adams, Hannah. The History of the Jews. 1812. | “Portents and prodigies announced the ruin of Jerusalem; swords were seen glittering in the air; embattled armies appeared; and the temple was illuminated by a stream of light, that issued from the heavens, the portal flew open, and a voice more than human, announced the immediate departure of the gods; there was heard, at the same time, a terrifick sound, as if superiour beings were actually rushing forth.” | quote | Works of Cornelius Tacitus, with an Essay on His Life and Genius. 1805. | ||
| Adams, Hannah. The History of the Jews. 1812. | “he was an able philosopher, physician, astronomer, mathematician, grammarian, and poet; and, that he was so well versed in Hebrew, Chaldaic, Arabic, and other languages, that he composed in them all with great facility.” | quote | De Rossi, Giovanni Bernardo. Dizionario Storico degli Autori Ebrei e delle Loro Opere. 1802. | ||
| Adams, Hannah. The History of the Jews. 1812. | “that the modern Jewish rabbis were an obstinate and perverse race of men, strenuous advocates for the odious sect of the Pharisees and their institutions.” | quote | Acosta, Uriel. The Remarkable Life of Uriel Acosta. 1740. | Biography | |
| Adams, Hannah. The History of the Jews. 1812. | “Spinoza was a Jew by birth, a Christian through policy, and an atheist by principle.” | quote | Bayle's Dictionary, Historical and Critical. 1734 – 1738. | ||
| Adams, Hannah. The History of the Jews. 1812. | “the Jewish Socrates” | quote | “Biographical Sketch of Moses Mendelsshon.” Aikin, John (editor). The Monthly Magazine; or, British Register. 1796-02 – 1843. | Biography | |
| Adams, Hannah. The History of the Jews. 1812. | “the Jewish Plato” | quote | “Biographical Sketch of Moses Mendelsshon.” Aikin, John (editor). The Monthly Magazine; or, British Register. 1796-02 – 1843. | Biography | |
| Adams, Hannah. The History of the Jews. 1812. | “The renown of Mendolsohn was the electric spark which awakened the genius of the Hebrews; and he had for his contemporaries and successors distinguished men.” | quote | “Biographical Sketch of Moses Mendelsshon.” Aikin, John (editor). The Monthly Magazine; or, British Register. 1796-02 – 1843. | Biography | |
| Adams, Hannah. The History of the Jews. 1812. | “Having travelled very extensively in the eastern world, and being a man of observation, learning, and intelligence, his conversation was highly entertaining and instructive. He was born at Hebron, and educated there and at Jerusalem. He had travelled all over the Holy Land, and visited many cities in Asia and Europe. The doctor was greatly delighted with his society, and had frequent intercourse with him for the purpose of acquiring the pronunciation of the Hebrew; of ascertaining the meaning of ambiguous expressions in the original of the Old Testament; of learning the usages of the modern Jews; of conversing on past events relating to this extraordinary nation, as recorded in sacred history; and of tracing its future destiny by the light of prophecy. They cultivated a mutual friendship when together, and corresponded in Hebrew when apart.” | quote | Holmes, Abiel. The Life of Ezra Stiles, D.D. LL.D. 1798. | Biography | |
| Adams, Hannah. The History of the Jews. 1812. | “So catholick was the intercourse between this learned Jew and learned Christian, that they often spent hours together in conversation; and the information which the extensive travels of the Jew enabled him to give, especially concerning the Holy Land, was a rich entertainment to his christian friend. The civilities of the rabbi were more than repaid. The doctor very frequently attended the worship of the synagogue at Newport, not only when rabbi Carigal officiated, but at the ordinary service before his arrival, and after his departure.” | quote | Holmes, Abiel. The Life of Ezra Stiles, D.D. LL.D. 1798. | Biography | |
| Adams, Hannah. The History of the Jews. 1812. | “this civility and catholicism towards the Jews is worthy of imitation. It is to be feared that Christians do not what ought to be done towards the conversion of this devoted people. While admitted into most countries for the purposed of trade and commerce, instead of being treated with that humanity and tenderness which christianity should inspire, they are often persecuted and condemned as unworthy of notice or regard. Such treatment tends to prejudice them against our holy religion, and to establish them in their infidelity.” | quote | Holmes, Abiel. The Life of Ezra Stiles, D.D. LL.D. 1798. | Biography | |
| Adams, Hannah. A Summary History of New-England. 1799. | History | “that there be forever hereafter, within the kingdom of England, a society or company for propagating the gospel in New-England, and the parts adjacent in America.” | quote | Birch, Thomas. The Life of the Honourable Robert Boyle. 1744. | Biography |
| Adams, Hannah. A Summary History of New-England. 1799. | History | “for the more full and complete establishment of Yale college; and for enlarging its powers and privileges.” | quote | Holmes, Abiel. The Life of Ezra Stiles, D.D. LL.D. 1798. | Biography |
| Adams, Hannah. A Summary History of New-England. 1799. | History | “Never was the hand of divine Providence more visible, than on this occasion. Never was a disappointment more severe on the side of an enemy; nor a deliverance more complete, without human help, in favour of this country.” | quote | Belknap, Jeremy. American Biography; or, An Historical Account of Those Persons Who Have Been Distinguished in America. 1794. | Biography |
| Adams, Hannah. A Summary History of New-England. 1799. | History | “those papers were executed with uncommon energy and address; and in vigor of sentiment, and the nervous language of patriotism, would not have disgraced any assembly, that ever existed.” | quote | Godwin, William. The History of the Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. 1783. | Biography |
| Adams, Hannah. A Summary History of New-England. 1799. | History | “A provisional act for settling the troubles in America, and for asserting the supreme legislative authority, and superintending power of Great-Britain over the colonies.” | quote | Godwin, William. The History of the Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. 1783. | Biography |
| Adams, Hannah. A Summary History of New-England. 1799. | History | “act for enlarging the powers, and increasing the funds of Yale college.” | quote | Holmes, Abiel. The Life of Ezra Stiles, D.D. LL.D. 1798. | Biography |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “Saint Catherine of Sienna was born in the city whence she takes her name in 1347. She vowed virginity at eight years of age, and soon after assumed the Dominican habit. She became famous for her revelations; and being ingenious, a good writer for her age, and distinguished for piety and charity, her influence was considerable. She went to Avignon to procure a reconciliation between the Florentines and Pope Gregory XI, who had excommunicated them; and by her eloquence she persuaded that pontiff to restore the papal sent to Rome after it had been seventy years at Avignon. Gregory however lived to repent of the step, and on his deathbed exhorted all persons present not to credit visions of private persons, acknowledging that he himself had been deceived by an enthusiast, and foresaw that it would produce evil consequences to the church. In the schism that succeeded, Catharine adhered to Urban VI. She died in 1380, and was canonized by Pope Pius II in 1461. There is extant of hers a volume of Italian letters, written to popes, princes, cardinals, &c., besides several devotional pieces.” | quote | Aikin, John. General Biography; or, Lives, Critical and Historical. 1801. | Biography | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “became a mistress of the Greek and Latin languages, of arithmetic, and the sciences then generally taught, and of various musical instruments. She wrote with elegance both in English and Latin. In the latter her style was so pure, that cardinal Pole could scarcely be brought to believe that her compositions were the work of a female.” | quote | Aikin, John. General Biography; or, Lives, Critical and Historical. 1801. | Biography | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “Her reverence and affection for her father were unbounded. After his head had been exposed during fourteen days upon London bridge, she found means to procure it, and, preserving it carefully in a leaden box, gave directions that it should be placed in her arms when she was buried; which was accordingly done.” | quote | Aikin, John. General Biography; or, Lives, Critical and Historical. 1801. | Biography | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “At the Tower-wharf, his favourite daughter, Mrs. Roper, was waiting to take her last farewell of him. At his approach, she burst through the throng, fell on her knees before her father, and, closely embracing him, could only utter, ‘“My father, oh my father!”’ He tenderly returned her embrace, and, exhorting her to patience, parted from her. She soon in a passion of grief again burst through the crowd, and clung round his neck in speechless anguish. His firmness was now overcome; tears flowed plentifully down his cheeks, till with a final kiss she left him.” | quote | Aikin, John. General Biography; or, Lives, Critical and Historical. 1801. | Biography | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | ‘“My father, oh my father!”’ | quote | Aikin, John. General Biography; or, Lives, Critical and Historical. 1801. | Biography | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “mortal excellencies,” | quote | Hutchinson, Lucy (Apsley). Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson. 1806. | Biography | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “with their remembrance renew their grief,” | quote | Hutchinson, Lucy (Apsley). Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson. 1806. | Biography | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “But I that am under a command (of her husband at his death) not to grieve at the common rate of desolate woemen, while I am studying which way to moderate my woe, and if it were possible to augment my love, can for the present find out none more just to your deare father nor consolatory to myselfe then the preservation of his memory, which I need not guild with such flattering commendations as the higher preachers doe equally give to the truly and titularly honourable; a naked undrest narrative, speaking the simple truth of him, will deck him with more substantiall glorie, than all the panegyricks the best pens could ever consecrate to the best men.” | quote | Hutchinson, Lucy (Apsley). Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson. 1806. | Biography | |
| Barbauld, Anna Laetitia (Aikin). Reasons for National Penitence. 1794. | Theology | “sicut vetus ætas vidit, quid ultimum in libertate esset: ita nos quid in servitute, adempto per inquisitiones et loquendi, audiendique, commercio.” | quote | Tacitus, Cornelius. “De Vita et Moribus Julii Agricolae.” De Vita et Moribus Julii Agricolae; et De origine et situ Germanorum. 1777. | |
| Bingham, Margaret, Countess of Lucan. Verses on the Present State of Ireland. 1768. | “. . . . .si Dieu me donne encor de la Vie je ferai qu'il n'y aura point de laboureur en mon Royaume qui n'ait moyen d'avoir une poule dans son pot. . . . . .” | quote | Hardouin de Beaumont de Péréfixe, Landry. Histoire du Roy Henry le Grand. 1662. | Biography | |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “Whilst the moon dances through the trembling leaves” | quote | Behn, Aphra (Johnson). Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and his Sister. 1684. | |
| Brooks, Maria (Gowen). “Zóphiël, A Poem.” Zóphiël; or, The Bride of Seven. 1825. | Poetry | “Those locks, each curl of which is worth a hundred musk-bags of China, would be sweet indeed, if their scent proceeded from sweetness of temper.” | quote | The Works of Sir William Jones, with The Life of the Author. 1807. | |
| Brooks, Maria (Gowen). “Zóphiël, A Poem.” Zóphiël; or, The Bride of Seven. 1825. | Poetry | “When the breeze shall waft the fragrance of thy locks over the tomb of Hafiz, a thousand flowers shall spring from the earth that hides his corse.” | quote | The Works of Sir William Jones, with The Life of the Author. 1807. | |
| Brooks, Maria (Gowen). “Zóphiël; or, The Bride of Seven.” Zóphiël; or, The Bride of Seven. 1834. | Poetry | “A certain Livonian, who was an officer in the Saxon army, and named Paikel, was made prisoner by the troops of Charles, and condemned to be decapitated at Stockholm. Before the execution of his sentence he found means to inform the senate that he was in possesssion of the secret of making gold, which, on condition of pardon, he would communicate to the King. The experiment was made in prison, in presence of Colonel Hamilton and the magistrates of the city; the gold found in the crucible, after the experiment, was carried to the mint at Stockholm, and a judicial report made to the senate, which appeared so important, that the Queen-mother ordered the execution to be suspended until the King could be informed of so singular an event, and transmit his orders to Stock Charles answered, that he had refused the pardon of the criminal to his relations, and that he would never grant to interest what he had refused to friendship.” | quote | Voltaire. Life of Charles XII. 1737. | Biography |
| Butler, Sarah. Irish Tales. 1716. | Novel | “Exemplo patrum commotus amori legendi, Ivit ad Hibernos Sophia mirabile daros.” | quote | [unknown]. The Life of Sulgenus. | |
| Campbell, Dorothea Primrose. Poems. 1811. | Poetry | “Now youth and merit fill the sable bier, And lacerated friendship drops the tear:— Year chases year, decay pursues decay, And steals some joy from with'ring life away.” | quote | Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works. 1799. | |
| Chalmers, Margaret. Poems. 1813. | Poetry | “woven, drest, and clean,” | quote | Burns, Robert. “Tarry Woo.” The Works of Robert Burns. 1800. | |
| Chalmers, Margaret. Poems. 1813. | Poetry | “may clad a Queen.” | quote | Burns, Robert. “Tarry Woo.” The Works of Robert Burns. 1800. | |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “The bright work grows Beneath my hand, unfolding, as a rose, Leaf after leaf to beauty; line by line, I fix my thought, heart, soul, to burn, to shine Through the pale marble's veins—it grows, and now I give my own life's history to thy brow, Forsaken Ariadne! thou shalt wear My form, my lineaments; but oh, more fair! Touch'd into lovelier being by the glow Which in me dwells, as by the summer's light All things are glorified.” | quote | Hemans, Felicia Dorothea (Browne). Properzia Rossi. 1821. | Biography | |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “Yet the world will see Little of this, my parting work, in thee— Thou shalt have fame! Oh, mockery! give the reed From storms a shelter—give the drooping vine Something round which its tendrils may entwine— Give the parch'd flower a rain-drop—and the meed Of love's kind words to woman! Worthless fame, That in his bosom wins not for my name The abiding place it ask'd! Yet how my heart In its own fairy-land of song and art Once beat for praise!” | quote | Hemans, Felicia Dorothea (Browne). Properzia Rossi. 1821. | Biography | |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “But I go Under the silent wings of peace to dwell, From the slow wasting, from the lonely pain, The inward burning of the words, ‘in vain,’ Sear'd on the heart, I go.” | quote | Hemans, Felicia Dorothea (Browne). Properzia Rossi. 1821. | Biography | |
| Cheney, Harriet Vaughan (Foster). A Peep at the Pilgrims. 1824. | Novel | ‘fit to regale the devil after dinner.’” | quote | Belknap, Jeremy. American Biography; or, An Historical Account of Those Persons Who Have Been Distinguished in America. 1794. | Biography |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “Last and lowest, a feculum of beings called overseers — the most abject, degraded, unprincipled race — always cap in hand to the Dons who employed them, and furnishing materials for the exercise of their pride, insolence, and spirit of domination.” | quote | Wirt, William. Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry. 1817. | Biography |
| Cowley, Hannah (Parkhouse). The Scottish Village: or, Pitcairne Green. 1786. | Poetry | “The alternate verse of ten syllables, has been pronounced by Dryden, whose knowledge of English metre was not inconsiderable, to be the most perfect of all the measures which our language affords.” | quote | Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. 1779 – 1781. | |
| Cushing, Eliza Lanesford (Foster). “Saratoga; a Tale of the Revolution (vol. 1).” Saratoga. 1824. | Novel | “I know that we have all an innate love of our country, and that the greatest men have been sensible to its attractions; but I know also that it is only little minds which cannot shake off these fetters.” | quote | Dobson, Susanna (translator, editor). “The Life of Petrarch.” The Life of Petrarch. Collected from Memoires pour la Vie de Petrarch. 1775. | Biography |
| Cushing, Eliza Lanesford (Foster). “Saratoga; a Tale of the Revolution (vol. 2).” Saratoga. 1824. | Novel | “I know that we have all an innate love of our country, and that the greatest men have been sensible to its attractions; but I know also that it is only little minds which cannot shake off these fetters.” | quote | Dobson, Susanna (translator, editor). “The Life of Petrarch.” The Life of Petrarch. Collected from Memoires pour la Vie de Petrarch. 1775. | Biography |
| Green, Sarah. Romance Readers and Romance Writers: A Satirical Novel. 1810. | Novel | “blood heat,” | quote | The Works of John Dryden, with A Life of the Author. 1808. | |
| Green, Sarah. Romance Readers and Romance Writers: A Satirical Novel. 1810. | Novel | “temperate,” | quote | The Works of John Dryden, with A Life of the Author. 1808. | |
| Haywood, Eliza (Fowler). “The Female Spectator (vol. 1).” The Female Spectator, 1745-46. 1745. | “Ill Customs, by Degrees, to Habits rise, Ill Habits soon become exalted Vice.” | quote | The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, with An Account of His Life and Writings. 1760. | ||
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “Lo! where old Walden's hallow'd wood.” | quote | Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “Clifford, with honest, ready zeal.” | quote | Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “That Clifford's name is dire and fell.” | quote | Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “That kneeling captain bears young Beaufort's cognizance.” | quote | Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “Did Montague forsake the fight?” | quote | Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography |