Date: 1799
"My brain was usurped by some benumbing power, and my limbs refused to support me."
preview | full record— 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."
preview | full record— 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!"
preview | full record— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Date: 1788
"These propensities gave the colour to her mind, before the passions began to exercise their tyrannic sway, and particularly pointed out those which the soil would have a tendency to nurse."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"He had been the slave of beauty, the captive of sense; love he ne'er had felt; the mind never rivetted the chain, nor had the purity of it made the body appear lovely in his eyes."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
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."
preview | full record— 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."
preview | full record— 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."
preview | full record— 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."
preview | full record— 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."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)