Date: 1799
"A mind thus susceptible of new impressions must be, I conceived, of a wonderful texture."
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Date: 1799
"In stepping to the instrument some motion or appearance awakened a thought in my mind, which affected my feelings like the shock of an earthquake"
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Date: 1799
"The images that haunted me at home and abroad, in her absence and her presence, gradually coalesced into one shape, and gave birth to an incessant train of latent palpitations and indefinable hopes"
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Date: 1799
"My imagination was incessantly pursued by the image of this youth, perishing alone, and in obscurity; calling on the name of distant friends, or invoking, ineffectually, the succour of those who are near"
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Date: 1799
"[M]y heart was the seat of commiseration and horror"
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Date: 1799
"Pictures of their own distress, or of that of their neighbours, were exhibited in all the hues which imagination can annex to pestilence and poverty."
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Date: 1799
"I reflected that the source of all energy, and even of life, is seated in the thought"
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Date: 1800, 1806
"He is young, / And yet the stamp of thought so tempers youth, / That all its fires are faded"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1800
"My sensibility, if not extinguished, was blunted"
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Date: 1800
"My heart drooped and my tongue faultered, at this sight"
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