Date: 1798
"A woman, with sentiments as pure, as refined, and as delicate, as ever inhabited a human heart!"
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Date: 1798
"In a robust and unwavering judgment of this sort, there is a kind of witchcraft; when it decides justly, it produces a responsive vibration in every ingenuous mind."
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Date: 1798
"No neighbour mind serves as a mirror to reflect the generous confidence he felt within himself; and perhaps the man never yet existed, who could maintain his enthusiasm to its full vigour, in the midst of this kind of solitariness."
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Date: 1803
"Why, curst remembrance, wilt thou haunt my mind?"
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Date: 1803
A partner of one's "future state" should not have "strong vice" "stamped upon her mind"
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Date: 1803
"What though Astrea decks my soul in gold, / My mortal lumber trembles with the cold;"
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Date: 1803
"How shall I touch his iron soul with pain, / Who hears unmoved a multitude complain?"
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Date: 1803
"In thee each virtue found a pleasing cell, / Thy mind was honour, and thy soul divine"
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Date: 1803
"[W]rithing Mania sits on Reason's throne, /Or Melancholy marks it for her own"
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Date: 1803
"Reason's empire o'er the world presides, / And man from brute, and man from man divides"
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