Date: 1800
"You see, though a man, I use your privilege, and prefer knitting yarn to threshing my brain with a book or the barn-floor with a flail"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"Mischievous passions" may be too "deeply rooted" in the heart to tear out
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: March 1843
"My earthly senses are closing over my spirit like the leaves around the heart of a rose at sunset."
preview | full record— Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)