I sought not in her visage, for the tinge of the morning, a… - Charles Brockden Brown

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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

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Charles Brockden Brown (17 January 1771 – 22 February 1810) was an American novelist, historian, and editor of the Early National period, generally regarded by scholars as the most ambitious and accomplished US novelist before James Fenimore Cooper.

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My narrative may be invaded by inaccuracy and confusion; but if I live no longer, I will, at least, live to complete it. What but ambiguities, abruptnesses, and dark transitions, can be expected from the historian who is, at the same time, the sufferer of these disasters?

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