Quote#Nature
Fallen from his lofty and heroic station; now finally restored to the…
Quote byCharles Brockden Brown · 1771–1810
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Wieland; or, the Transformation (1798).
English (original)
Fallen from his lofty and heroic station; now finally restored to the perception of truth; weighed to earth by the recollection of his own deeds; consoled no longer by a consciousness of rectitude, for the loss of offspring and wife – a loss for which he was indebted to his own misguided hand; Wieland was transformed at once into the man of sorrow?
— Charles Brockden Brown
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