Date: 1800
"Steel were the heart / That could this passing spectacle survey, / Nor feel the touch of sympathy within."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1800
"We're dead to pity as to fear, / Our hearts are cas'd with steel"
preview | full record— Holman, Joseph George (1764-1817)
Date: 1800
"Others, unemployed, were strolling to and fro, and testified to their vacancy of thought and care by humming or whistling a tune."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"The excursions of my fancy had sometimes carried me beyond the bounds prescribed by my situation, but they were, nevertheless, limited to that field to which I had once some prospect of acquiring a title"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"A few incoherent motions and screams, that rent the soul, were followed by a deep swoon."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"A sort of electrical sympathy pervaded my companion, and terror and anguish were strongly manifested in the glances which she sometimes stole at me."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"My mind gradually expanded itself, as it were, for the reception of new ideas."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1804
" Two men they were by storms of misery driven / To lose the soul's sheet anchor, trust in Heaven!"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: c. 1804-1811, 1818
"For every human heart has gates of brass & bars of adamant, / Which few dare unbar because dread Og & Anak guard the gates"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: c. 1804-1811, 1818
"Terrific! and each mortal brain is walld and moated round / Within"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)