Date: 1799

"In stepping to the instrument some motion or appearance awakened a thought in my mind, which affected my feelings like the shock of an earthquake"

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

Date: 1799

"The images that haunted me at home and abroad, in her absence and her presence, gradually coalesced into one shape, and gave birth to an incessant train of latent palpitations and indefinable hopes"

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

Date: 1799

"My imagination was incessantly pursued by the image of this youth, perishing alone, and in obscurity; calling on the name of distant friends, or invoking, ineffectually, the succour of those who are near"

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

Date: 1799

"[M]y heart was the seat of commiseration and horror"

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

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."

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

Date: 1799

"I reflected that the source of all energy, and even of life, is seated in the thought"

— 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."

— West, Jane (1758-1852)

Date: 1799

One may hie "From his own blank inanity"

— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)

Date: 1799

"From birth, from talents, and those matchless arts / That stamp one man the ruler of men's hearts."

— Craven, Keppel (1779-1851); Schiller (1759-1805)

Date: 1799

"They are brave fellows;--they have arms of iron, and hearts of wax."

— Plumptre, Anne (1760-1818); Kotzebue (1761-1819)