Date: 1799

"My unfledged fancy had not hitherto soared to this pitch."

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

Date: 1799

"My understanding was bemazed, and my senses were taught to distrust their own testimony"

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

Date: 1799

"My thoughts flowed with tumult and rapidity."

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

Date: 1799

"I was driven, by a sort of mechanical impulse, in his foot-steps."

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

Date: 1799

Past events may be painted, "in vivid hues" on the [canvas] of the memory

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

Date: 1799

"They thought and acted in different but not discordant keys."

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

Date: 1799

"The images that haunted me at home and abroad, in her absence and her presence, gradually coalesced into one shape, and gave birth to an incessant train of latent palpitations and indefinable hopes"

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

Date: 1799

"My imagination was incessantly pursued by the image of this youth, perishing alone, and in obscurity; calling on the name of distant friends, or invoking, ineffectually, the succour of those who are near"

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

Date: 1799

"Hitherto distress had been contemplated at a distance, and through the medium of fancy delighting to be startled by the wonderful, or transported by sublimity."

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

Date: 1799

"[M]y heart was the seat of commiseration and horror"

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)