Date: 1796
"Anxious to authorise the presence of his dangerous guest, yet conscious that her stay was infringing the laws of his order, Ambrosio's bosom became the theatre of a thousand contending passions."
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Date: 1796
"He looked forward with horror: his heart was despondent, and became the abode of satiety and disgust: he avoided the eyes of his partner in frailty."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1799
The mind may be a theater "of discord and agony"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"My understanding was bemazed, and my senses were taught to distrust their own testimony"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"I endeavoured to shut out phantoms of the dying Wallace, and to forget the spectacle of domestic woes."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"Immured in these dreary meditations, the night passed away."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"Every sense was an inlet of pleasure, because it was an avenue to knowledge; and my soul brooded over the world of ideas, and glowed with exultation at the grandeur and beauty of its own creations"
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Date: 1800
"[I]f my heart thus bounds till its mansion scarcely hold it, what must be my state tomorrow!"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1851
"No, but put a sky-light on top of his head to illuminate inwards."
preview | full record— Melville, Herman (1819-1891)
Date: 1854
"The emphasis was helped by the speaker's hair, which bristled on the skirts of his bald head, a plantation of firs to keep the wind from its shining surface, all covered with knobs, like the crust of a plum pie, as if the head had scarcely warehouse-room for the hard facts stored inside."
preview | full record— Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)