Date: 1818
"This language is not the less true to nature, because it is false in point of fact; but so much the more true and natural, if it conveys the impression which the object under the influence of passion makes on the mind."
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Date: 1819
The master-passion is not always obeyed
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Date: 1819
Reason may "re-ascend her throne" after a burst of "salutary tears"
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Date: 1819
The "war within, these passions in their strife, / If thus protracted, had exhausted life"
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Date: 1819
"A brother's warning on thy heart engrave"
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Date: 1819
"Such acts will stamp their moral on the soul"
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Date: 1819
"'Alas! how soon would doubts again invade / 'The willing mind, and sins again persuade!"
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Date: 1819
"'These dreams and fancies easily invade; / 'The mind and body feel the slow disease,"
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Date: 1819
"'And dreams are what the troubled fancy sees.'--"
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