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Nationality of Author:
"American"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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Date: October 1784
"She grows up, and of course mixes with those who are less interested: strangers will be sincere; she encounters the tongue of the flatterer, he will exaggerate, she finds herself possessed of accomplishments which have been studiously concealed from her, she throws the reins upon the neck of fan...
preview | full record— Murray, Judith Sargent (1751-1820)
Date: 1793
"For her own child, all the feelings of a parental bosom vegetated in luxuriance."
preview | full record— Anonymous [By an American Lady]
Date: 1793
"Nothing is more luxuriant to a thinking mind than self approbation: It is a sun which dispels the clouds of solicitude and anxiety."
preview | full record— Anonymous [By an American Lady]
Date: 1793
"If, with the 'mind's eye,' she had a taste to travel through distant kingdoms and take a retrospective view of past events, she might nourish that fondness for variety so predominant with human nature, and in the indulgence of this disposition be happy."
preview | full record— Anonymous [By an American Lady]
Date: 1793
"Yet such is the construction of the human mind, that fear must be strongly imprest not to wear off by time."
preview | full record— Anonymous [By an American Lady]
Date: 1793
"Such is the natural imbecility of the human mind, it confines us to the immediate scenes in which we are engaged, and as new objects present the past is in a degree erased from recollection."
preview | full record— Anonymous [By an American Lady]
Date: 1793
"Mrs. Leason has one child, blessed with good natural abilities, and educated by a less indulgent parent, she might have shone in a domestic character, but when the idea is instilled in the youthful mind, that it is to be indulged in all its wishes, let the disposition be ever so pleasing, the so...
preview | full record— Anonymous [By an American Lady]
Date: 1793
"If the mind is a barren waste, of what avail are the beauties of the most lovely face, the elegance of the most enchanting shape, the grace of the most accomplished person; the imperceptible hand of time will deprive them of every external charm, and eclipse the lustre of the most penetrating eye."
preview | full record— Anonymous [By an American Lady]
