Date: 1800
The mind may be in "too great a tumult for deliberation and forecast"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
The soul may be thrown into tumults
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"Her mind was indeed more fertile than my own in those topics which take away its keenest edge from affliction."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"I merely write to allay those tumults which our necessary separation produces; to aid me in calling up a little patience, till the time arrives, when our persons, like our minds, shall be united forever."
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Date: 1814
"[H]er mind became cool enough to seek all the comfort that pride and self-revenge could give."
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1814
"They have injured the finest mind!--for sometimes, Fanny, I own to you, it does appear more than manner; it appears as if the mind itself was tainted."
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Date: 1814
"Then it occurred to her what might be going on; a suspicion rushed over her mind which drove the colour from her cheeks."
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Date: 1814
"Here was another strange revolution of mind!"
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Date: 1816
"Her mind was divided between two ideas--her own former conversations with him about Miss Fairfax; and poor Harriet."
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Date: 1816
"While he spoke, Emma's mind was most busy, and, with all the wonderful velocity of thought, had been able--and yet without losing a word--to catch and comprehend the exact truth of the whole."
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