Date: 1796
"Not so Lorenzo. Antonia's death, accompanied with such terrible circumstances, weighed upon his mind heavily."
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Date: 1796
"So lately a captive, oppressed with chains, perishing with hunger, suffering every inconvenience of cold and want, hidden from the light, excluded from society, hopeless, neglected, and, as I feared, forgotten: now restored to life and liberty, enjoying all the comforts of affluence and ease, su...
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Date: 1796
"The damning contract weighed heavy upon his mind; and the scenes in which he had been a principal actor, had left behind them such impressions as rendered his heart the seat of anarchy and confusion."
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Date: 1799
"My heart began now, for the first time, to droop"
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Date: 1799
"Surely some insanity has fastened on my understanding"
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Date: 1799
Dreams haunt "undisciplined and unenlightened" imaginations
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Date: 1799
"It seemed as if I were walking in the dark and might rush into snares or drop into pits before I was aware of my danger"
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Date: 1799
"I cannot well account for the revolution in my mind."
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Date: 1799
"A mind thus susceptible of new impressions must be, I conceived, of a wonderful texture."
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Date: 1799
"In stepping to the instrument some motion or appearance awakened a thought in my mind, which affected my feelings like the shock of an earthquake"
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