Date: 1799
"My imagination was incessantly pursued by the image of this youth, perishing alone, and in obscurity; calling on the name of distant friends, or invoking, ineffectually, the succour of those who are near"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"[M]y heart was the seat of commiseration and horror"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"Pictures of their own distress, or of that of their neighbours, were exhibited in all the hues which imagination can annex to pestilence and poverty."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"I reflected that the source of all energy, and even of life, is seated in the thought"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"From birth, from talents, and those matchless arts / That stamp one man the ruler of men's hearts."
preview | full record— Craven, Keppel (1779-1851); Schiller (1759-1805)
Date: 1799
In Fancy's "filial train," inspiration rides foremost and "Myriads of spruce ideas crowd the rear."
preview | full record— Grainger, James (1721-1766)
Date: 1799
"A head of wax should never court the sun."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1799
"Ah, you lucky dog! you have an estate in every corner of your brain, and a pretty income at the end of every finger."
preview | full record— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)
Date: 1799
"Ignorance has set her stamp upon him--his mind seared to every virtuous impression--his heart flint, and his temper moved by the slightest breath"
preview | full record— West, Matthew (d. 1814); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1800
"[I]f miseries pressed on thy brain too great for reason to support, would tend thee in the cell of madness, and even there derive more ecstasy from one kind look given in the transient intervals of sense, than all the unruffled pleasures that the world without thee can afford"
preview | full record— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)