Date: 1799
"I was driven, by a sort of mechanical impulse, in his foot-steps."
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Date: 1799
Past events may be painted, "in vivid hues" on the [canvas] of the memory
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Date: 1799
"They thought and acted in different but not discordant keys."
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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
"Hitherto distress had been contemplated at a distance, and through the medium of fancy delighting to be startled by the wonderful, or transported by sublimity."
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Date: 1799
"[M]y heart was the seat of commiseration and horror"
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Date: 1799
"I endeavoured to shut out phantoms of the dying Wallace, and to forget the spectacle of domestic woes."
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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 never cried in my life, sine I was knee-high, but curse me if I ever felt in better tune for the business than just then."
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