Date: 1794
"[T]he thing in which my imagination revelled the most freely, was the analysis of the private and internal operations of the mind, employing my metaphysical dissecting knife in tracing and laying bare the involutions of motive, and recording the gradually accumulating impulses."
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Date: 1796
"Aided by her youth and healthy constitution, she shook off the malady which her mother's death had occasioned; but it was not so easy to remove the disease of her mind."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"With affright did he bend his mind's eye on the space beyond the grave; nor could hide from himself how justly he ought to dread Heaven's vengeance."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)