Date: 1793
"I must consider what's to be done--and in this room my thoughts are too confined to reflect."
preview | full record— Inchbald [née Simpson], Elizabeth (1753-1821)
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
"What an abominable thing is reading? by this means, the mind is put into a hot-house and forced like a pineapple in Europe; and then produces bad fruit."
preview | full record— Anonymous; Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1796
"Alas! the door is locked and bolted, as the hearts of white men are."
preview | full record— Anonymous; Kotzebue (1761-1819)
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)