Date: 1796
"The cloud was now dissipated which had obscured his judgment; he shuddered when he beheld his arguments blazoned in their proper colours, and found that he had been a slave to flattery, to avarice, and self-love."
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Date: 1796
"He wrote these verses on his voyage to Cuba, when his mind was clouded by sorrow, and he forgot that he had a wife and children."
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Date: 1796
"He was still under the influence of this storm of passions, when he heard a gentle knock at the door of his cell."
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Date: 1796
"At the same time the cloud disappeared, and he beheld a figure more beautiful than fancy's pencil ever drew."
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Date: 1796
"The storm of passion once over, he would have given worlds, had he possessed them, to have restored to her that innocence of which his unbridled lust had deprived her."
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Date: 1799
"Then I began to revolve the consequences, which the mist of passion had hitherto concealed"
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Date: 1799
Words may operate on the "frame like lightning"
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Date: 1799
"Then I began to revolve the consequences, which the mist of passion had hitherto concealed."
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Date: 1851
"Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it...
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Date: 1855, 1856
"As his foot pressed the half-damp, half-dry sea-mosses matting the place, and a chance phantom cat's-paw--an islet of breeze, unheralded, unfollowed--as this ghostly cat's-paw came fanning his cheek, his glance fell upon the row of small, round dead-lights, all closed like coppered eyes of the c...
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