Date: 1799
"The influence of this thought was like the infusion of a new soul into my frame."
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Date: 1799
"And, in the waveless mirror of his mind, / Views the fleet years of pleasure left behind, / Since Anna's empire o'er his heart began!"
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Date: 1800
The heart may overflow "with joy not unmingled with regrets and trepidation"
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Date: 1800
The heart may be buoyed up by a kind of intoxication
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Date: 1800
The heart may overflow at the lips
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
The whole heart may be poured forth in a letter
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Date: October 4, 1802
"I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within."
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: September 10, 1802
"A Poet's Heart & Intellect should be combined, intimately combined & unified, with the great appearances in Nature -- & not merely held in solution & loose mixture with them, in the shape of formal Similies."
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Date: 1817
"The wise Stagyrite speaks of no successive particles propagating motion like billiard balls (as Hobbs;) nor of nervous or animal spirits, where inanimate and irrational solids are thawed down, and distilled, or filtrated by ascension, into living and intelligent fluids, that etch and re-etch eng...
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Date: 1817, 1818
There is "One mind, the type of all, the moveless wave / Whose calm reflects all moving things that are"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)