AND
Genre:
"Prose Fiction"
returned 91 results(s) in 0.001 seconds
Date: 1722
"[T]he Truth is, he ought to have been trusted with every Thing; for no Man could deserve better of a Wife; but this was a thing I knew not how to open to him, and yet having no Body to disclose any Part of it to, the Burthen was too heavy for my Mind."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1722
"I had such strong Impressions on my Mind about discovering my self to my old Husband"
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1722
"His Words I must confess fir'd my Blood; all my Spirits flew about my Heart, and put me into Disorder enough."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1722
"He repeated it afterwards several times, that he was in Love with me, and my Heart spoke as plain as a Voice, that I lik'd it."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1722
"O! what a felicity is it to Mankind, said I, to myself, that they cannot see into the Hearts of one another!"
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1722
"But my own Distresses silenc'd all these Reflections, and the prospect of my own Starving, which grew every Day more frightful to me, harden'd my Heart by degrees."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1722
"The thoughts of this Booty put out all the thoughts of the first, and the Reflections I had made wore quickly off; Poverty, harden'd my Heart, and my own Necessities made me regardless of any thing."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1722
"In short, I began to think, and to think indeed is one real Advance from Hell to Heaven; all that harden'd State and Temper of Soul, which I said so much of before, is but a Deprivation of Thought; he that is restor'd to his Thinking, is restor'd to himself."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1722
"I relate this in the very manner in which things then appear'd to me, as far as I am able; but infinitely short of the lively impressions which they made on my Soul at that time"
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1722
"[P]erhaps, said I, it may be some poor Widow like me, that had pack'd up these Goods to go and sell them for a little Bread for herself and a poor Child, and are now starving and breaking their Hearts, for want of that little they would have fetch'd, and this Thought tormented me worse th...
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
