Date: 1790
"Her mind was in a state of uncontroulable agitation; and, though music has power to sooth a gentle, or even a deep and settled melancholy, the torments of jealousy, the agonies of suspence, raise a tempest in the soul, which no harmony can lull to repose."
preview | full record— Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)
Date: 1790
"Let those who possess the talents, or the virtues, by which he was distinguished, avoid similar wretchedness, by guarding their minds against the influence of passion; since, if it be once suffered to acquire an undue ascendency over reason, we shall in vain attempt to controul its power: we mig...
preview | full record— Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)
Date: 1794
"But, as his imagination magnified to her the possible evils she was going to meet, the mists of her own fancy began to dissipate, and allowed her to distinguish the exaggerated images, which imposed on his reason."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1794
"The contending elements seemed to have retired from their natural spheres, and to have collected themselves into the minds of men, for there alone the tempest now reigned."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1794
"The fierce and terrible passions, too, which so often agitated the inhabitants of this edifice, seemed now hushed in sleep;--those mysterious workings, that rouse the elements of man's nature into tempest--were calm."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1794
"Mr. Falkland's mind was full of uproar like the war of contending elements"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1795
"Even there the passions reign; but they rove through the mind like murmuring, winds through barren and gloomy regions."
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1796
"The cloud was now dissipated which had obscured his judgment; he shuddered when he beheld his arguments blazoned in their proper colours, and found that he had been a slave to flattery, to avarice, and self-love."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"He wrote these verses on his voyage to Cuba, when his mind was clouded by sorrow, and he forgot that he had a wife and children."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"He was still under the influence of this storm of passions, when he heard a gentle knock at the door of his cell."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)