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: 1798
"No neighbour mind serves as a mirror to reflect the generous confidence he felt within himself; and perhaps the man never yet existed, who could maintain his enthusiasm to its full vigour, in the midst of this kind of solitariness."
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Date: 1803
"[W]rithing Mania sits on Reason's throne, /Or Melancholy marks it for her own"
preview | full record— Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)
Date: 1803
"Reason's empire o'er the world presides, / And man from brute, and man from man divides"
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Date: 1803
"Charms with soft words, and sooths with amorous wiles, / Her iron-hearted Lord,--and Pluto smiles."
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Date: [1805?] 1810, 1812, 1818
"Where bloody Butler's iron-hearted crew, / Doomed to the flames the weak submitting few"
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