Date: 1790
"Her sickly mind / Was ill at ease, though seated on the throne / of affluence and plenty."
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Date: 1790
"Love comes to the bosom under the gentle forms of esteem, of sympathy, of confidence: we listen with dangerous pleasure to the seducing accents of his voice, till he lifts the fatal veil which concealed him from our view, and reigns a tyrant in the soul. Reason is then an oracle no longer consul...
preview | full record— Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)
Date: 1790
"Julia was sensible that by accepting Mr. F--, she would put a final end to her present perplexities, and perhaps banish for ever, from the mind of Seymour, that unhappy passion which her presence nourished."
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Date: 1790
"Julia, since the period of Seymour's marriage, had endeavoured, by every effort in her power, to banish his idea from her mind."
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Date: 1790
"But, the region of passion is a land of despotism, where reason exercises but a mock jurisdiction; and is continually forced to submit to an arbitrary tyrant, who, rejecting her fixed and temperate laws, is guided only by the dangerous impulse of his own violent and uncontroulable wishes."
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Date: March 8, 1790
"Love does all day the soul's great empire keep; / But Wine, at night, lulls the soft God asleep."
preview | full record— Kemble, John Philip (1757-1823)
Date: 1790
'While we converse together, and I feel / 'Secret correction from the bolt of truth / 'Shot home, my better soul in triumph rides, / Borne on the wings of reason to her throne."
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Date: 1790
One may have two souls "which, like two mighty Kings, / 'Ever contending for the sov'reignty, / 'Stir up sedition and revolt within"
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Date: 1790
A better soul "by revolution strange" may come to sit on her throne
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Date: 1790
"O lovely queen, / Beauty usurps the empire of my heart, / All its affections."
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