Date: 1796
"He felt not the provocation of lust; no voluptuous desires rioted in his bosom; nor did a burning imagination picture to him the charms which modesty had veiled from his eyes."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"The image of that lovely and unfortunate girl still lived in his heart, and baffled all Virginia's efforts to displace it."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1799
"My mind was thronged with the images flowing from my late late adventures."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"The pen is a pacifyer. It checks the mind's career; it circumscribes her wanderings."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)