The quotations, citations, and other references made by women writers in the WWO collection.
| Source Text(definition of “Source text”) | Gesture(definition of “Intertextual gesture”) | Referenced Work(definition of “Referenced work”) | |||
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| Text | Topics & Genres (definition of “Topic”) | Text of the Gesture | Gesture Type (The Terminology page on “”) | Text | Topics & Genres (definition of “Topic”) |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “A kind indulgent sleep O'er works of length allowably may creep.” | quote | Horace (Q. Horatius Flaccus). The Works of Horace in English Verse. 1757 – 1759. | |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “A kind indulgent sleep O'er works of length allowably may creep.” | quote | Horace (Q. Horatius Flaccus). “The Art of Poetry.” The Epistles and Art of Poetry of Horace. 1746. | |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “human face divine” | quote | Milton, John. Paradise Lost. 1667. | Poetry |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “human face divine?” | quote | Milton, John. Paradise Lost. 1667. | Poetry |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “to know one's self” | quote | [unknown]. Proverb or saying. | |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “The bloom of opening flowers—” | quote | [unknown]. Proverb or saying. | |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “I love you, I love you dearly, I love you all day long.” | quote | Unlikely to be published elsewhere. | |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “Shade above shade, a woody theatre,” | quote | Milton, John. Paradise Lost. 1667. | Poetry |
| 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. | |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “brighten'd the chain of friendship” | quote | [unknown]. Proverb or saying. | |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “――Amour; Tous les autres plaisirs ne valent pas tes peines” | quote | Faucon de Ris, Charles. Poesies de Saint-Pavin et de Charleval. 1739. | Poetry |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “plain in her neatness” | quote | Horace (Q. Horatius Flaccus). “Book 1, Ode 5: Ad Pyrrham (To Pyrrha).” Carmina. 0008. | |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “He comes, the conqueror comes” | quote | [unknown]. Proverb or saying. | |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “A new Athens rising near the pole,” | quote | Pope, Alexander. “Two Choruses to the Tragedy of Brutus.” The Works of Alexander Pope. 1751. | Poetry |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “Since all agree to own, at least to mean, One great, one good, one general Lord of all.” | quote | Rowe, Nicholas. Tamerlane: A Tragedy. 1702. | |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “Excuse the blush, and pour out all the heart.” | quote | Pope, Alexander. Eloisa to Abelard. 1717. | Poetry |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “To Miss Fermor. It is not to you, my dear girl, I need vindicate my conduct in regard to Sir George; you have from the first approved it; you have even advised it. If I have been to blame, 'tis in having too long delayed an explanation on a point of such importance to us both. I have been long on the borders of a precipice, without courage to retire from so dangerous a situation: overborn by my family, I have been near marrying a man for whom I have not the least tenderness, and whose conversation is even now tedious to me. My dear friend, we were not formed for each other: our minds have not the least resemblance. Have you not observed that, when I have timidly hazarded my ideas on the delicacy necessary to keep love alive in marriage, and the difficulty of preserving the heart of the object beloved in so intimate an union, he has indolently assented, with a coldness not to be described, to sentiments which it is plain from his manner he did not understand; whilst another, not interested in the conversation, has, by his countenance, by the fire of his eyes, by looks more eloquent than all language, shewed his soul was of intelligence with mine! A strong sense of the force of engagements entered into with my consent, though not the effect of my free, unbiassed choice, and the fear of making Sir George, by whom I supposed myself beloved, unhappy, have thus long prevented my resolving to break with him for ever; and though I could not bring myself to marry him, I found myself at the same time incapable of assuming sufficient resolution to tell him so, 'till his mother's letter gave me so happy an occasion. There is no saying what transport I feel in being freed from the insupportable yoke of this engagement, which has long sat heavy on my heart, and suspended the natural chearfulness of my temper. Yes, my dear, your Emily has been wretched, without daring to confess it even to you: I was ashamed of owning I had entered into such engagements with a man whom I had never loved, though I had for a short time mistaken esteem for a greater degree of affection than my heart ever really knew. How fatal, my dear Bell, is this mistake to half our sex, and how happy am I to have discovered mine in time! I have scarce yet asked myself what I intend; but I think it will be most prudent to return to England in the first ship, and retire to a relation of my mother's in the country, where I can live with decency on my little fortune. Whatever is my fate, no situation can be equally unhappy with that of being wife to a man for whom I have not even the slightest friendship or esteem, for whose conversation I have not the least taste, and who, if I know him, would for ever think me under an obligation to him for marrying me. I have the pleasure to see I give no pain to his heart, by a step which has relieved mine from misery: his feelings are those of wounded vanity, not of love. Adieu! Your Emily Montague.” | quote | No external source. | |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “there is a man on earth” | quote | Referenced work not found. | |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “who can please where he appears.” | quote | Referenced work not found. | |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “it is in woman” | quote | Referenced work not found. | |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “Celestial rosy red,” | quote | Milton, John. Paradise Lost. 1667. | Poetry |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “Who strut and fret their hour upon the stage;” | quote | Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Macbeth. 1623. | |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “The weak, the fond, the fool, the coward woman” | quote | Cowley, Abraham. Discourse Concerning the Government of Oliver Cromwell. 1688. | |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “For my shepherd is kind, and my heart is at ease.” | quote | Boyce, William. The Chaplet. 1750. | Opera |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “I held it both safest and best To marry, for fear you should chide.” | quote | Gay, John. The Beggar's Opera. 1777. | Drama |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “To Colonel Rivers, at Quebec. Silleri, Friday morning. You are a foolish creature, and know nothing of women. Dine at Silleri, and we will air after dinner; 'tis a glorious day, and if you are timid in a covered carriole, I give you up. Adieu! Yours, A. Fermor.” | quote | No external source. | |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “I count the hours of his absence in my existence” | quote | Referenced work not found. | |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “Sit like patience on a monument,” | quote | Shakespeare, William. The Twelfth Night. 1623. | Drama |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “Do not hope for perfect happiness; there is no such thing in this sublunary state. Your sex is the more exposed to suffer, because it is always in dependence: be neither angry nor ashamed of this dependence on a husband, nor of any of those which are in the order of Providence. Let your husband be your best friend and your only confidant. Do not hope that your union will procure you perfect peace: the best marriages are those where with softness and patience they bear by turns with each other; there are none without some contradiction and disagreement. Do not expect the same degree of friendship that you feel: men are in general less tender than women; and you will be unhappy if you are too delicate in friendship. Beg of God to guard your heart from jealousy: do not hope to bring back a husband by complaints, ill humor, and reproaches. The only means which promise success, are patience and softness: impatience sours and alienates hearts; softness leads them back to their duty. In sacrificing your own will, pretend to no right over that of a husband: men are more attached to theirs than women, because educated with less constraint. They are naturally tyrannical; they will have pleasures and liberty, yet insist that women renounce both: do not examine whether their rights are well founded; let it suffice to you, that they are established; they are masters, we have only to suffer and to obey with a good grace.” | quote | [various editors] (editor). Letters of Wit, Politics, and Morality. 1701. | Letter |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “All that can softly win, or gaily charm The heart of woman.” | quote | Unlikely to be published elsewhere. | |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario, That dear perfidious—” | quote | Rowe, Nicholas. The Fair Penitent: A Tragedy. 1784. | |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “There is sometimes, both in persons and things, an invisible charm, a natural grace, which we cannot define, and which we are therefore obliged to call the je ne sçai quoi. It seems to me that this is an effect principally founded on surprize. We are touched that a person pleases us more than she seemed at first to have a right to do; and we are agreably surprized that she should have known how to conquer those defects which our eyes shewed us, but which our hearts no longer believe: 'tis for this reason that women, who are not handsome, have often graces or agreablenesses; and that beautiful ones very seldom have. For a beautiful person does generally the very contrary of what we expected; she appears to us by degrees less amiable, and, after having surprized us pleasingly, she surprizes us in a contrary manner; but the agreable impression is old, the disagreable one new: 'tis also seldom that beauties inspire violent passions, which are almost always reserved for those who have graces, that is to say, agreablenesses, which we did not expect, and which we had no reason to expect. Magnificent habits have seldom grace, which the dresses of shepherdesses often have. We admire the majesty of the draperies of Paul Veronese; but we are touched with the simplicity of Raphael, and the exactness of Corregio. Paul Veronese promises much, and pays all he promises; Raphael and Corregio promise little, and pay much, which pleases us more. These graces, these agreablenesses, are found oftener in the mind than in the countenance: the charms of a beautiful countenance are seldom hidden, they appear at first view; but the mind does not shew itself except by degrees, when it pleases, and as much as it pleases; it can conceal itself in order to appear, and give that species of surprize to which those graces, of which I speak, owe their existence. This grace, this agreableness, is less in the countenance than in the manner; the manner changes every instant, and can therefore every moment give us the pleasure of surprize: in one word, a woman can be handsome but in one way, but she may be agreable in a hundred thousand.” | quote | de Secondat, Charles-Louis, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu. Essay on Taste. 1757. | |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “Th' according music of a well-mix'd state.” | quote | Pope, Alexander. Essay on Man. 1733. | |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “Taming the genius of the stubborn plain, Almost as quickly as they conquer'd Spain:” | quote | Pope, Alexander. “First Imitation/Satire of the Second Book of Horace’s Odes.” The Works of Alexander Pope. 1751. | Poetry |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “Love is a child, and like a child he plays.” | quote | Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Six Town Eclogues. 1747. | |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “Grow with our growth, and strengthen with our strength.” | quote | Pope, Alexander. Essay on Man. 1733. | |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “A thousand little tendernesses throb,” | quote | Thomson, James. Agamemnon: A Tragedy. 1738. | |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “Deepen'd the murmur of the falling floods, And breath'd a browner horror on the woods.” | quote | Referenced work not found. | |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “His dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.” | quote | Horace (Q. Horatius Flaccus). “Book 1, Ode 5: Ad Pyrrham (To Pyrrha).” Carmina. 0008. | |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “Give me neither poverty nor riches.” | quote | Proverbs. | Sacred text |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “The happiness of the next world, to the virtuous, will consist in enjoying the society of minds like their own.” | quote | Referenced work not found. | |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “True self-love and social are the same:” | quote | Pope, Alexander. Essay on Man. 1733. | |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “―― Rivers for a period of a mile.” | quote | Pope, Alexander. “Imitation/Satire of the Fourth Book of Horace’s Odes.” The Works of Alexander Pope. 1751. | Poetry |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “My ever-new delight.” | quote | Milton, John. Paradise Lost. 1667. | Poetry |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “Un homme qui ne peut plus compter ses bonnes fortunes, est de tous, celui qui connoît le moins les faveurs. C'est le cœur qui les accorde, & ce nest pas le cœur qu'un homme à la mode interesse. Plus on est prôné par les femmes, plus il est facile de les avoir, mais moins il est possible de les enflammer.” | quote | Referenced work not found. | |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “That reconciliation is the tenderest part of love and friendship: the soul here discovers a kind of elasticity, and, being forced back, returns with an additional violence.” | quote | Shenstone, William. “Essay on Men and Manners.” The Whole Poetical Works of William Shenstone. 1773. | Poetry |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “O lovely source Of generous foibles, youth! when opening minds Are honest as the light, lucid as air, As fostering breezes kind, as linnets gay, Tender as buds, and lavish as the spring.” | quote | Shenstone, William. The Whole Poetical Works of William Shenstone. 1773. | Poetry |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “to feed among the lilies.” | quote | Song of Solomon. | |
| Brooke, Frances (Moore). The History of Emily Montague. 1769. | Novel | “She look'd a goddess, and she mov'd a queen.” | quote | Homer. The Iliad of Homer. 1715 – 1720. | |