Date: 1796
"Fy! you are horrid people! we lacerate our bodies; you, your souls.---We believe that the scars on our faces add to our beauty; you consider your vices as ornaments."
preview | full record— Anonymous; Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1796
"None! You cannot wash my face white, or I his conscience."
preview | full record— Anonymous; Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: w. 1766, 1797
"Has my moral pencil / So oft portray'd the forms of truth and falshood, / In their just lineaments, to thy mind's eye"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1798
Prejudices "are like old Wounds! when the weather changes they still smart"
preview | full record— Plumptre, Anne (1760-1818); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1798
"He sticks to his text I find; for he always begins his sermons by telling me what fine things I could do, if I would but give my soul elbow room"
preview | full record— Brand, Hannah (d. 1821); Philippe Héricault Destouches (1680-1754)
Date: 1799
"The heart of a physician should be in full steel and armour, like the body of a tortoise"
preview | full record— Ludger, Conrad (b. 1748)
Date: June 15, 1799
"To sacrifice himself for his wife--is the splendid idea, on which he, at present, delights to gaze till his mind's eye become blind to every ray of other hope"
preview | full record— Neuman, Henry (f. 1799); August Friedrich Ferndinand von Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1800
"I'll have a score of painters set to work, and hang my portrait up in every chamber through which you pass, 'till the detested image of him whose presence taints the genial air shall be so everlastingly impress'd on your mind's eye, in darkness you shall see it; in solitude, in sleep, I still wi...
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811); Maria Geisweiler (fl.1799); Kotzebue (1761-1819)