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Date: 1799
"My heart was lightened of its wonted burthen, and I laboured to invent some harmless explication of the scene I had witnessed the preceding night."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
The heart may be "lightened of its usual weight"
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Date: 1799
"The sympathy, however, had proved contagious, and the stranger turned away his face to hide his own tears."
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Date: 1799
"These images now gave birth to a third conception, which darted on my benighted understanding like an electrical flash."
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