Date: 1797
"In the eagerness of conversation, and, yielding to the satisfaction which the mind receives from exercising ideas that have long slept in dusky indolence, and to the pleasure of admitting new ones, the Abbot and a few of the brothers sat with Vivaldi to a late hour."
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Date: 1799
"My heart was lightened of its wonted burthen, and I laboured to invent some harmless explication of the scene I had witnessed the preceding night."
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Date: 1799
The heart may be "lightened of its usual weight"
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Date: 1799
"The sympathy, however, had proved contagious, and the stranger turned away his face to hide his own tears."
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Date: 1799
"These images now gave birth to a third conception, which darted on my benighted understanding like an electrical flash."
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Date: 1800
The face may be an index of an honest mind
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Date: 1800
The passions may be supplied with food
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Date: 1800
"My curiosity grew more eager, in proportion as it was supplied with food, and every day added strength to the assurance that I was no insignificant and worthless being."
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