Date: 1791, 1794
"When fancy paints to me the good old man stooping to raise the weeping penitent, while every tear from her eye is numbered by drops from his bleeding heart, my bosom glows with honest indignation, and I wish for power to extirpate those monsters of seduction from the earth."
preview | full record— Rowson, Susanna (1762-1828)
Date: 1791, 1794
"The goodness of her heart is depicted in her ingenuous countenance."
preview | full record— Rowson, Susanna (1762-1828)
Date: 1791, 1794
"Even now imagination paints the scene, when, torn by contending passions, when, struggling between love and duty, you fainted in my arms, and I lifted you into the chaise."
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Date: 1999
"But my mother told me that just the opposite was true. That the pictures in your mind were always more beautiful than what was in the world."
preview | full record— Offill, Jenny (b. 1968)