Date: 1798
"The gloominess of her mind communicated its own colour to the objects she saw; and in this temper she began a series of Letters on the Present Character of the French Nation, one of which she forwarded to her publisher, and which appears in the collection of her posthumous works."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1798
"Methinks, its [a fluttering "film"] motion in this hush of nature / Gives it dim sympathies with me who live, / Making it a companionable form, / Whose puny flaps and freaks the idling Spirit / By its own moods interprets, every where / Echo or mirror seeking of itself, / And makes a toy of Thou...
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1799
"My heart began now, for the first time, to droop"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"Surely some insanity has fastened on my understanding"
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Date: 1799
Dreams haunt "undisciplined and unenlightened" imaginations
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"It seemed as if I were walking in the dark and might rush into snares or drop into pits before I was aware of my danger"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"I cannot well account for the revolution in my mind."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"A mind thus susceptible of new impressions must be, I conceived, of a wonderful texture."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"In stepping to the instrument some motion or appearance awakened a thought in my mind, which affected my feelings like the shock of an earthquake"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"The images that haunted me at home and abroad, in her absence and her presence, gradually coalesced into one shape, and gave birth to an incessant train of latent palpitations and indefinable hopes"
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