Date: 1796
"I am now convinced that my reason wandered, and the falsehood of the ghost's prediction is sufficient to prove my error."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"He pronounced the most severe sentences upon offenders, which the moment after compassion induced him to mitigate: he undertook the most daring enterprizes, which the fear of their consequences soon obliged him to abandon: his inborn genius darted a brilliant light upon subjects the most obscure...
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1798
"In a robust and unwavering judgment of this sort, there is a kind of witchcraft; when it decides justly, it produces a responsive vibration in every ingenuous mind."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: February, 1798
"And what (I said) tho' blasphemy's loud scream / With that sweet music of deliv'rance strove; / Tho' all the fierce and drunken passions wove / A dance more wild than ever maniac's dream; / Ye storms, that round the dawning east assembled, / The sun was rising, tho' ye hid his light!"
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1799
"My meditations had been ardently pursued, and, when I recalled my attention, I found myself bewildered among fields and fences."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"My thoughts flowed with tumult and rapidity."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
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)