Date: 1796
"I have read the emotions of your bosom; you are yet ill skilled in concealing them, and they could not escape my attentive eye."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"The mind of a young woman lady should be clear and unsullied, like a sheet of white paper, or her own fairer face"
preview | full record— Hays, Mary (1760-1843)
Date: 1797
"You are juvenile, and like unto a white sheet of paper, on which vice or righteousness may be impressed."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 1797
"An habitual gloom and severity prevailed over the deep lines of his countenance; and his eyes were so piercing that they seemed to penetrate, at a single glance, into the hearts of men, and to read their most secret thoughts; few persons could support their scrutiny, or even endure to meet them ...
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1800
"The pen is a pacifyer. It checks the mind's career; it circumscribes her wanderings."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)