Date: 1776
"I am provoked at this natural incapacity of conveying my sentiments to you; words are but a cloak, or rather a clog, to our ideas; there should be no curtain before the hearts of friends; and the longing I have ever felt for an intuitive converse, is to me a strong argument for a future state."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1777
"Almost all the other passions may be made to take an amiable hue; but these two must either be totally extirpated, or be always contented to preserve their original deformity, and to wear their native black."
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: 1892
"The thought beneath so slight a film / Is more distinctly seen,-- / As laces just reveal the surge, / Or mists the Apennine."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)