Date: 1799
"My brain was usurped by some benumbing power, and my limbs refused to support me."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"To meet him, after so long a separation, here, and in these circumstances, was so unlooked-for and abrupt and event, and revived a tribe of such hateful impulses and agonizing recollections, that a total revolution seemed to have been reflected in my frame."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1858
"His faculties were so well balanced and combined, that his constitution, free from excess, was tempered evenly with all the elements of activity, and his mind resembled a well-ordered commonwealth."
preview | full record— Bancroft, George (1800-1891)
Date: 1957
"That lofty monarch, Monarch Mind, / Blue-blooded in coarse country reigned."
preview | full record— Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)
Date: 1956
"There sits no higher court / Than man's red heart."
preview | full record— Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)
Date: September 10, 1836
"The first effort of thought tends to relax this despotism of the senses, which binds us to nature as if we were a part of it, and shows us nature aloof, and, as it were, afloat."
preview | full record— Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
Date: September 10, 1836
"These are examples of Reason’s momentary grasp of the sceptre; the exertions of a power which exists not in time or space, but an instantaneous in-streaming causing power."
preview | full record— Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
Date: August 31, 1837
"And whatsoever new verdict Reason from her inviolable seat pronounces on the passing men and events of to-day, -- this he shall hear and promulgate."
preview | full record— Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
Date: 1890
"No rack can torture me, / My soul's at liberty."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1892
"The soul unto itself / Is an imperial friend,— / Or the most agonizing spy / An enemy could send."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)