Charles Brockden Brown: Herring

Charles Brockden Brown was American novelist, historian and editor. Explore interesting quotes on herring.
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“I sought not in her visage, for the tinge of the morning, and the lustre of heaven. These had vanished with life; but I hoped for liberty to print a last kiss upon her lips. This was denied me; for such had been the merciless blow that destroyed her, that not a lineament remained!”

Charles Brockden Brown

Wieland; or, the Transformation (1798)

“A woman capable of recollection in danger, of warding off groundless panics, of discerning the true mode of proceeding, and profiting by her best resources, is a prodigy.”

Charles Brockden Brown

Wieland; or, the Transformation (1798)

“Where was her bloom! These deadly and blood-suffused orbs but ill resemble the azure and ecstatic tenderness of her eyes. The lucid stream that meandered over that bosom, the glow of love that was wont to sit upon that cheek, are much unlike these livid stains and this hideous deformity. Alas! These were the traces of agony; the grip of the assassin had been here!”

Charles Brockden Brown

Wieland; or, the Transformation (1798)