Date: 1799
"Pictures of their own distress, or of that of their neighbours, were exhibited in all the hues which imagination can annex to pestilence and poverty."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"I reflected that the source of all energy, and even of life, is seated in the thought"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: w. 1784, 1799
"Pleased she surveys her infant charge, / Beholds the mental powers enlarge, / And as the young ideas rise, / Directs their issues to the skies."
preview | full record— West, Jane (1758-1852)
Date: 1799
One may hie "From his own blank inanity"
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1799
"From birth, from talents, and those matchless arts / That stamp one man the ruler of men's hearts."
preview | full record— Craven, Keppel (1779-1851); Schiller (1759-1805)
Date: 1799
"They are brave fellows;--they have arms of iron, and hearts of wax."
preview | full record— Plumptre, Anne (1760-1818); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
In Fancy's "filial train," inspiration rides foremost and "Myriads of spruce ideas crowd the rear."
preview | full record— Grainger, James (1721-1766)
Date: 1799
"A head of wax should never court the sun."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1799
"You will not, by blasting the latter, render yourself unworthy of the former, and tear asunder the only bond which unites Elvira's heart to yours."
preview | full record— Plumptre, Anne (1760-1818); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: w. 1796, 1799
"Notwithstanding the law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members."
preview | full record— Osborn, Sarah (1714-1796)