Date: 1799
"Ah, you lucky dog! you have an estate in every corner of your brain, and a pretty income at the end of every finger."
preview | full record— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)
Date: 1799
"Ignorance has set her stamp upon him--his mind seared to every virtuous impression--his heart flint, and his temper moved by the slightest breath"
preview | full record— West, Matthew (d. 1814); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1800
"[I]f miseries pressed on thy brain too great for reason to support, would tend thee in the cell of madness, and even there derive more ecstasy from one kind look given in the transient intervals of sense, than all the unruffled pleasures that the world without thee can afford"
preview | full record— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)
Date: 1800, 1806
"He is young, / And yet the stamp of thought so tempers youth, / That all its fires are faded"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1800
"The inner world, his microcosmus, is / The deep shaft, out of which they spring eternally."
preview | full record— Schiller, Friedrich (1759-1805)
Date: 1800
"My sensibility, if not extinguished, was blunted"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"My heart drooped and my tongue faultered, at this sight"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"Ellis was by no means hard of heart"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"The excursions of my fancy had sometimes carried me beyond the bounds prescribed by my situation, but they were, nevertheless, limited to that field to which I had once some prospect of acquiring a title"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"My thoughts have ever hovered over the images of wife and children with more delight than over any other images"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)