Date: c. 1680
"While man unmarr'd abode, his Spirits all / In Vivid hue were active in their hall."
preview | full record— Taylor, Edward (1642-1729)
Date: 1787
"Those desires which heretofore were only loose from their slavery in sleep, when he was yet under the laws and his father, when under democratic government, now when he is tyrannized over by his passions, shall be equally as loose when he is awake, and from no horrid slaughter or deed shall he a...
preview | full record— Adams, John (1735-1826)
Date: 1791, 1794
"Such were the dreadful images that haunted her distracted mind, and nature was sinking fast under the dreadful malady which medicine had no power to remove."
preview | full record— Rowson, Susanna (1762-1828)
Date: 1799
"His torments were acute and tedious, but in the midst even of delirium, his heart seemed to overflow with gratitude, and to be actuated by no wish but to alleviate our toil and our danger."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"It seemed as if I were walking in the dark and might rush into snares or drop into pits before I was aware of my danger"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"My understanding was bemazed, and my senses were taught to distrust their own testimony"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"Pictures of their own distress, or of that of their neighbours, were exhibited in all the hues which imagination can annex to pestilence and poverty."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"Others, unemployed, were strolling to and fro, and testified to their vacancy of thought and care by humming or whistling a tune."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"The excursions of my fancy had sometimes carried me beyond the bounds prescribed by my situation, but they were, nevertheless, limited to that field to which I had once some prospect of acquiring a title"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"A few incoherent motions and screams, that rent the soul, were followed by a deep swoon."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)