Date: 1796
"I suffered not my grief at this circumstance to take root in my mind."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"Extreme simplicity prevented her from perceiving the aim to which the monk's insinuations tended; but the excellent morals which she owed to Elvira's care, the solidity and correctness of her understanding, and a strong sense of what was right, implanted in her heart by nature, made her feel tha...
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1799
Certain beliefs cannot be "outrooted" from the mind
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
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)
Date: 1992
"Other people's words drifted through his mind, like the tumbleweed across a windy desert in the opening shots of 'They Came from Outer Space.'"
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 1992
"That terror was the price he had to pay for the first heartbreaking wave of pleasure when consciousness seemed to burst out, like white blossoms, along the branches of every nerve."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 1992
"And all his scattered thoughts came rushing together, like loose iron filings as a magnet is held over them and draws them into the shape of a rose."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 1992
"Other people's words drifted through his mind. Tumbleweed riding through a desert. Had he already thought that?"
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)