Date: 1796
"Do you feel no void in your heart, which you fain would have filled up?"
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1797
"'If you are under any promise of secresy,' interrupted Vivaldi, 'I forbid you to tell this wonderful tale, which, however, seems somewhat too big to rest within your brain.'"
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1797
"Having said this, I am prepared to meet whatever suffering you shall inflict upon me; but be assured, that my own voice never shall sanction the evils to which I may be subjected, and that the immortal love of justice, which fills all my heart, will sustain my courage no less powerfully than the...
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1799
"My mind was so full of objects of more urgent moment that the propriety of taking them [his shoes] along with me never occurred."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"Others, unemployed, were strolling to and fro, and testified to their vacancy of thought and care by humming or whistling a tune."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"My mind gradually expanded itself, as it were, for the reception of new ideas."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"The image of Achsa filled my fancy, but it was the harbinger of nothing but humiliation and sorrow."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)