Date: 1799
"My heart was lightened of its wonted burthen, and I laboured to invent some harmless explication of the scene I had witnessed the preceding night."
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Date: 1799
The heart may be "lightened of its usual weight"
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Date: 1799
"The sympathy, however, had proved contagious, and the stranger turned away his face to hide his own tears."
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Date: 1799
"These images now gave birth to a third conception, which darted on my benighted understanding like an electrical flash."
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Date: 1799
"The heart of a physician should be in full steel and armour, like the body of a tortoise"
preview | full record— Ludger, Conrad (b. 1748)
Date: June 15, 1799
"To sacrifice himself for his wife--is the splendid idea, on which he, at present, delights to gaze till his mind's eye become blind to every ray of other hope"
preview | full record— Neuman, Henry (f. 1799); August Friedrich Ferndinand von Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1800
"Teach thou my hand, with mutual love, to trace / His mind, as perfect as thy lines his face!"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1800
"Julius! thou proof how mists of pride may blind / The eye of reason in the strongest mind!"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1800
The face may be an index of an honest mind
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
The passions may be supplied with food
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