Date: 1791, 1794
"When fancy paints to me the good old man stooping to raise the weeping penitent, while every tear from her eye is numbered by drops from his bleeding heart, my bosom glows with honest indignation, and I wish for power to extirpate those monsters of seduction from the earth."
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Date: 1791, 1794
"The goodness of her heart is depicted in her ingenuous countenance."
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Date: 1791, 1794
"Even now imagination paints the scene, when, torn by contending passions, when, struggling between love and duty, you fainted in my arms, and I lifted you into the chaise."
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Date: 1819
Some dreams "more strong, abiding figures draw / 'Upon the brain, and we assert 'I saw;'"
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Date: 1819
In sleep the fancy may place "A powerful likeness of a form and face" on the organs
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