Date: 1795
"My brain was a broker's shop; the little good furniture it contained all hid by lumber!"
preview | full record— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809)
Date: 1796, 1806
"Ambition!--not that emulative zeal Which wings the tow'ring souls of godlike men! / But bold, oppressive, self-created pow'r, / That, trampling o'er the barrier of the laws, / And scattering wide the tender shoots of pity, / Strikes at the root of reason, and confines / Nature itself in bondage!"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1797
""But returning passion, like a wave that has recoiled from the shore, afterwards came with recollected energy, and swept from her feeble mind the barriers which reason and conscience had begun to rear."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1798
"I believe it may be admitted as a maxim, that no person of a well furnished mind, that has shaken off the implicit subjection of youth, and is not the zealous partizan of a sect, can bring himself to conform to the public and regular routine of sermons and prayers."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1799
The mind may be a theater "of discord and agony"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"My understanding was bemazed, and my senses were taught to distrust their own testimony"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"I endeavoured to shut out phantoms of the dying Wallace, and to forget the spectacle of domestic woes."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"Immured in these dreary meditations, the night passed away."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"Every sense was an inlet of pleasure, because it was an avenue to knowledge; and my soul brooded over the world of ideas, and glowed with exultation at the grandeur and beauty of its own creations"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"[I]f my heart thus bounds till its mansion scarcely hold it, what must be my state tomorrow!"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)