Date: 1798
"Feeling herself unable to accept this as an explanation, she instantly determined to sail for London by the very first opportunity, that she might thus bring to a termination the suspence that preyed upon her soul."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1798
"Moral reasoning is nothing but the awakening of certain feelings; and the feeling by which he is actuated, is too strong to leave us much chance of impressing him with other feelings, that should have force enough to counterbalance it."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1798
"A woman, with sentiments as pure, as refined, and as delicate, as ever inhabited a human heart!"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1798
"In a robust and unwavering judgment of this sort, there is a kind of witchcraft; when it decides justly, it produces a responsive vibration in every ingenuous mind."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1798
"No neighbour mind serves as a mirror to reflect the generous confidence he felt within himself; and perhaps the man never yet existed, who could maintain his enthusiasm to its full vigour, in the midst of this kind of solitariness."
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Date: 1810, 1820
"Though slow to entertain thoughts of love, as soon as he perceives the partiality of his ward, it enters his breast like a torrent when the flood-gates are opened."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1811
"The senses are the only inlets of knowledge, and there is an inward sense that had persuaded me of this."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1814
"The mind of a child is like the acorn; its powers are folded up, they do not yet appear, but they are all there."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1814
"Instruction is the food of the mind; it is like the dew and the rain and the rich soil."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)