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Date: 1797

"After considering these circumstances, and the words, which had just told her she was to go no further, conviction struck like lightning upon her heart; and, believing she was brought hither to be assassinated, horror chilled all her frame, and her senses forsook her."

— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)

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Date: 1797

"In reply to this, Vivaldi only bowed, but he remarked that the stranger's countenance altered, and that some dark brooding appeared to cloud his mind, as he quitted the chamber."

— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)

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Date: 1797

"Whether he had done so in his first assertion was a question, which had raised in Vivaldi's mind a tempest of conjecture and of horror; for, while the subject of it was too astonishing to be fully believed, it was also too dreadful, not to be apprehended even as a possibility."

— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)

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Date: 1797

"With the society of La Pietà, Olivia had thus found an asylum such as till lately she had never dared to hope for; but, though she frequently expressed her sense of this blessing, it was seldom without tears; and Ellena observed, with some surprise and more disappointment, within a very few days...

— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)

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Date: 1799

"Then I began to revolve the consequences, which the mist of passion had hitherto concealed"

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

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Date: 1799

Words may operate on the "frame like lightning"

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

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Date: 1799

"Then I began to revolve the consequences, which the mist of passion had hitherto concealed."

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.