Date: 1798
"'That we can feed this mind of ours, / 'In a wise passiveness."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1798?, 1868
"'Grave [the commandments] with Thy Spirit's seal / On the tables of my heart."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1798?, 1868
"On my heart the promise seal'd, / Wrote forgiveness on my heart!"
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Date: 1794, 1796, 1797, rev. 1798
"Where'er they rov'd, young Fancy and the Muse / Wav'd high their mirror of a thousand hues."
preview | full record— Mathias, Thomas James (1753/4-1835)
Date: 1799
"His torments were acute and tedious, but in the midst even of delirium, his heart seemed to overflow with gratitude, and to be actuated by no wish but to alleviate our toil and our danger."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
Certain beliefs cannot be "outrooted" from the mind
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"I spent the night ruminating on the future and in painting to my fancy the adventures which I should be likely to meet."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"My heart began now, for the first time, to droop"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"I reflected with amazement on the slightness of that thread by which human passions are led from their true direction."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"My mind was so full of objects of more urgent moment that the propriety of taking them [his shoes] along with me never occurred."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)