Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
I had no fear that my character or dignity would suffer in his hands,
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
I compared the cause with the effect, and they seemed disproportioned to each other.
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
I have deceived you: I have sported with your terrors: I have plotted to destroy your reputation. I come now to remove your errors;
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
Pleyel did not scruple to regard the whole as a deception of the senses. Perhaps a voice had been heard; but Wieland's imagination had misled him in supposing a resemblance to that of his wife, and giving such a signification to the sounds.
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
"Nay, my dear girl," said my friend, "lay aside these fancies.
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
The storm is let loose, and I shall peaceably submit to be driven by its fury. But go on.
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
"Let him be undeceived in this respect, and what floods of despair and of horror will overwhelm him! Instead of glowing approbation and serene hope, will he not hate and torture himself?
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
"If I have memory, if I have being, I am innocent. I intended no ill; but my folly, indirectly and remotely, may have caused it; but what words are these!
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
I imagined that I fully comprehended this scene.