Date: 1777
"I retire to the family of my own thoughts, and find them in weeds of sorrow."
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1777
"[T]here is, methinks, a languor in your last letter--or is it but the livery of my own imagination, which the objects around me are constrained to wear?"
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1796
"You! holding the next place to God in my breast, yet two days, and my heart will be unveiled to you."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: March 1843
"Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practise an unconscious self-deception during our waking moments."
preview | full record— Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)