Date: 1789
"I rejoiced in spirit, making melody in my heart to the God of all my mercies, Now my whole wish was to be dissolved, and to be with Christ—but, alas! I must wait mine appointed time."
preview | full record— Equiano, Olaudah [Gustavus Vasa] (c. 1745-1797)
Date: 1790
"His own view of his situation immediately recurs upon him. He abandons himself, as before, to sighs and tears and lamentations; and endeavours, like a child that has not yet gone to school, to produce some sort of harmony between his own grief and the compassion of the spectator, not by moderati...
preview | full record— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)
Date: 1798
"We'll frame the measure of our souls, / They shall be tuned to love"
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1799
"They thought and acted in different but not discordant keys."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"I never cried in my life, sine I was knee-high, but curse me if I ever felt in better tune for the business than just then."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)