Date: 1794
"A superstitious dread stole over her; she stood listening, for some moments, in trembling expectation, and then endeavoured to recollect her thoughts, and to reason herself into composure; but human reason cannot establish her laws on subjects, lost in the obscurity of imagination, any more than...
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Date: 1794
I may act "in obedience to the principle which at present governed me with absolute dominion"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1794
"I would not shackle you with fetters of suspicion; I would have you governed by justice and reason."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: w. 1795
We may "exert over our own heart a virtuous despotism, and lead our own Passions in triumph"
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1796, 1806
"A dread coincidence of time and act / Drew me from Reason's empire to Despair!"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1797
"Having arranged her books, and set her little room in order, she seated herself at a window, and, with a volume of Tasso, endeavoured to banish every painful remembrance from her mind."
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Date: 1797
"'Justice does not the less exist, because her laws are neglected,' observed Schedoni. 'A sense of what she commands lives in every breast; and when we fail to obey that sense, it is to weakness, not to virtue, that we yield.'"
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Date: 1797
"'Behold, what is woman!' said he--'The slave of her passions, the dupe of her senses! When pride and revenge speak in her breast, she defies obstacles, and laughs at crimes!'" "Assail but her senses; let music, for instance, touch some feeble chord of her heart, and echo to her fancy, and lo! al...
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Date: 1797
"The ruling passion of his nature once more resumed its authority, and he determined to earn the honour which the Marchesa had in store for him."
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Date: 1797
"'I have been through life,' said the penitent, 'the slave of my passions, and they have led me into horrible excesses."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)