Date: 1799

"My brain was usurped by some benumbing power, and my limbs refused to support me."

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

Date: 1799

"To meet him, after so long a separation, here, and in these circumstances, was so unlooked-for and abrupt and event, and revived a tribe of such hateful impulses and agonizing recollections, that a total revolution seemed to have been reflected in my frame."

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

Date: 1814

"The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient--at others, so bewildered and so weak--and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond controul!"

— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)

Date: 1790

"His passions were vehement, and she had the address to bend them to her own purpose; and so well to conceal her influence, that he thought himself most independent when he was most enslaved."

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

Date: 1790

"Unaccustomed to oppose the bent of her inclinations, they now maintained unbounded sway; and she found too late, that in order to have a due command of our passions, it is necessary to subject them to early obedience."

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

Date: 1790

"The scene she had witnessed, raised in the marchioness a tumult of dreadful emotions. Love, hatred, and jealousy, raged by turns in her heart, and defied all power of controul."

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

Date: 1790

"The love of power was his ruling passion;--with him no gentle or generous sentiment meliorated the harshness of authority, or directed it to acts of beneficence."

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

Date: 1790

"With the duke, whose heart was a stranger to the softer affections, indignation usurped the place of parental feeling."

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

Date: 1790

"The duke, whose passion for Julia was heightened by the difficulty which opposed it, admitted such concessions as in other circumstances he would have rejected; and thus each, conquered by the predominant passion of the moment, submitted to be the slave of his adversary."

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

Date: 1790

"Thus do the scenes of life vary with the predominant passions of mankind, and with the progress of civilization."

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