Date: 1797
"Fear thee, O Death!--Or hug the chains that bind / To joyless, cheerless life, her sick, reluctant mind?"
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1797
"Thus man, the giant who now held her in captivity, would shrink to the diminutiveness of a fairy; and she would experience, that his utmost force was unable to enchain her soul, or compel her to fear him, while he was destitute of virtue."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1799
"I was driven, by a sort of mechanical impulse, in his foot-steps."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"All the circumstances of my present situation tended to arrest the progress of thought, and chain my contemplations to one image"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)