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"

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

Date: 1799

"The images that haunted me at home and abroad, in her absence and her presence, gradually coalesced into one shape, and gave birth to an incessant train of latent palpitations and indefinable hopes"

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

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"

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

Date: 1799

"[M]y heart was the seat of commiseration and horror"

— 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."

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

Date: 1799

"I reflected that the source of all energy, and even of life, is seated in the thought"

— 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."

— 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."

— Grainger, James (1721-1766)

Date: 1799

"A head of wax should never court the sun."

— 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."

— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)