Date: 1794
"Thus circumstanced, she tried to banish reflection, but her busy fancy would still hover over the subjects of her interest, and she heard the clock of the castle strike two, before she closed her eyes."
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Date: 1794
"A superstitious dread stole over her; she stood listening, for some moments, in trembling expectation, and then endeavoured to recollect her thoughts, and to reason herself into composure; but human reason cannot establish her laws on subjects, lost in the obscurity of imagination, any more than...
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Date: 1796, 1806
"A dread coincidence of time and act / Drew me from Reason's empire to Despair!"
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Date: 1797
"Having arranged her books, and set her little room in order, she seated herself at a window, and, with a volume of Tasso, endeavoured to banish every painful remembrance from her mind."
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Date: 1797
"'Justice does not the less exist, because her laws are neglected,' observed Schedoni. 'A sense of what she commands lives in every breast; and when we fail to obey that sense, it is to weakness, not to virtue, that we yield.'"
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Date: 1797
"'Behold, what is woman!' said he--'The slave of her passions, the dupe of her senses! When pride and revenge speak in her breast, she defies obstacles, and laughs at crimes!'" "Assail but her senses; let music, for instance, touch some feeble chord of her heart, and echo to her fancy, and lo! al...
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Date: 1797
"The ruling passion of his nature once more resumed its authority, and he determined to earn the honour which the Marchesa had in store for him."
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Date: 1797
"'I have been through life,' said the penitent, 'the slave of my passions, and they have led me into horrible excesses."
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Date: 1797
"Though a lawless passion had first suggested to the dark mind of Schedoni the atrocious act, which should destroy a brother, many circumstances and considerations had conspired to urge him towards its accomplishment."
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