Date: w. August 1814
"Yet as the Tuscan mid the snow / Of Lapland thinks on sweet Arno, / Even so for ever shall she be / The Halo of my Memory."
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1814
"The mind which does not struggle against itself under one circumstance, would find objects to distract it in the other, I believe; and the influence of the place and of example may often rouse better feelings than are begun with."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1814
"[H]er mind became cool enough to seek all the comfort that pride and self-revenge could give."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1814
"The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient--at others, so bewildered and so weak--and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond controul!"
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1814
"Upon such expressions of affection, Fanny could have lived an hour without saying another word; but Edmund, after waiting a moment, obliged her to bring down her mind from its heavenly flight by saying, 'But what is it that you want to consult me about?'"
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1814
"They have injured the finest mind!--for sometimes, Fanny, I own to you, it does appear more than manner; it appears as if the mind itself was tainted."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1814
"Then it occurred to her what might be going on; a suspicion rushed over her mind which drove the colour from her cheeks."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1814
"The solemn procession, headed by Baddely, of tea-board, urn, and cake-bearers, made its appearance, and delivered her from a grievous imprisonment of body and mind."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1814
"Here was another strange revolution of mind!"
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1814
"That a girl of fourteen, acting only on her own unassisted reason, should err in the method of reform was not wonderful; and Fanny soon became more disposed to admire the natural light of the mind which could so early distinguish justly, than to censure severely the faults of conduct to which it...
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)