Date: 1796
"He related her adventure; and he added, that since that time his ideas having undergone a thorough revolution, he now felt much compassion for the unfortunate nun."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"You are still too much the monk, your mind is enslaved by the prejudices of education; and superstition might make you shudder at the idea of that which experience has taught me to prize and value."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"Unfortunately his passions were the very worst judges to whom he could possibly have applied."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"In every heart to find a slave, / In every soul to fix his reign, / In bonds to lead the wise and brave, / And make the captives kiss his chain; / Such is the power of Love, and oh! / I grieve so well Love's power to know."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: January 13, 1796
"Come then, sweet sounds, for you alone / Can bid the tumult cease, / Restore reason to it's throne / His bosom to it's peace."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1798
"Women have a frame of body more delicate and susceptible of impression than men, and, in proportion as they receive a less intellectual education, are more unreservedly under the empire of feeling."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1798
"Wounded affection, wounded pride, all those principles which hold absolute empire in the purest and loftiest minds, urged her to still further experiments to recover her influence, and to a still more poignant desparation, long after reason would have directed her to desist, and resolutely call ...
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1798
"But a connection more memorable originated about this time, between Mary and a person of her own sex, for whom she contracted a friendship so fervent, as for years to have constituted the ruling passion of her mind."
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Date: 1798
"Law and Reason's Empire to the skies" may "On the firm base of British freedom rise"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1798
"Some silent laws our hearts may make, / Which they shall long obey"
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)