Date: 1800
" The abrupt recovery of what had been deemed irretrievable, would naturally produce this effect upon a mind of a certain texture"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"I fear my heart would droop as often as that other image should occur to my fancy"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
The mind may be in "too great a tumult for deliberation and forecast"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
The soul may be thrown into tumults
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"Her mind was indeed more fertile than my own in those topics which take away its keenest edge from affliction."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"I merely write to allay those tumults which our necessary separation produces; to aid me in calling up a little patience, till the time arrives, when our persons, like our minds, shall be united forever."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: September 10, 1802
"A Poet's Heart & Intellect should be combined, intimately combined & unified, with the great appearances in Nature -- & not merely held in solution & loose mixture with them, in the shape of formal Similies."
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1804
"Los took his globe of fire to search the interiors of Albions / Bosom, in all the terrors of friendship, entering the caves / Of despair & death, to search the tempters out"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: w. 1797-1807, published 1893
"perhaps this is the night / Of Prophecy & Luvah hath burst his way from Enitharmon / When Thought is closd in Caves. Then love shall shew its root in deepest Hell"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1811
"The senses are the only inlets of knowledge, and there is an inward sense that had persuaded me of this."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)