Date: 1797
"At the extravagance of her suspicions, however, and the weakness of her terrors, she blushed, and endeavoured to resist that propensity to fear, which nerves long pressed upon had occasioned in her mind."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1797
"Her heart was possessed by evil passions, and all her perceptions were distorted and discoloured by them, which, like a dark magician, had power to change the fairest scenes into those of gloom and desolation."
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Date: 1797
"The subject of his waking thoughts still haunted his imagination, and the stranger, whose voice he had this night recognized as that of the prophet of Paluzzi, appeared before him."
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Date: 1799
"My heart began now, for the first time, to droop"
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Date: 1799
"Surely some insanity has fastened on my understanding"
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Date: 1799
Dreams haunt "undisciplined and unenlightened" imaginations
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Date: 1799
"It seemed as if I were walking in the dark and might rush into snares or drop into pits before I was aware of my danger"
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Date: 1799
"I cannot well account for the revolution in my mind."
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Date: 1799
"A mind thus susceptible of new impressions must be, I conceived, of a wonderful texture."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"In stepping to the instrument some motion or appearance awakened a thought in my mind, which affected my feelings like the shock of an earthquake"
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