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plunged in an abyss of dismal reflection—a
Alexandre Dumas • The Three Musketeers
Perhaps the sight of the sister whom he was wont to love with a passion more than fraternal, might have an auspicious influence on his malady.
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
"They refuse to credit my tale; they impute my acts to the influence of daemons; they account me an example of the highest wickedness of which human nature is capable; they doom me to death and infamy. Have I power to escape this evil? If I have, be sure I will exert it. I will not accept evil at their hand, when I am entitled to good; I will
... See moreCharles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
His conceptions were ardent but ludicrous, and his memory, aided, as he honestly acknowledged, by his invention, was an inexhaustible fund of entertainment.
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
or very kind or in the last resort very wicked; very witty or very stupid, but something. —ALFRED DE MUSSET
Robert Greene • The Art of Seduction
The assassin had defrauded me of my last and miserable consolation.