Date: 1799
"A sinking at my heart, as if it had been penetrated my a dagger seized me"
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Date: 1799
"These images now gave birth to a third conception, which darted on my benighted understanding like an electrical flash."
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Date: 1799
"The influence of this thought was like the infusion of a new soul into my frame."
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Date: 1799
"All the circumstances of my present situation tended to arrest the progress of thought, and chain my contemplations to one image"
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Date: 1799
"My mind was thronged with the images flowing from my late late adventures."
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Date: 1799
"Then I began to revolve the consequences, which the mist of passion had hitherto concealed."
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Date: 1800
The heart may overflow "with joy not unmingled with regrets and trepidation"
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Date: 1800
"My sensibility, if not extinguished, was blunted"
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Date: 1800
The face may be an index of an honest mind
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Date: 1800
"You see, though a man, I use your privilege, and prefer knitting yarn to threshing my brain with a book or the barn-floor with a flail"
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