Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless

London

Printed by T. Gardner

1751

"While the blood runs high, and desire is rampant for possession, prudence is of little force; but when the one begins to flag, the other resumes its empire over the mind, and never rests till it finds means to retrieve what it has lost"

While the blood runs high, and desire is rampant for possession, prudence is of little force; but when the one begins to flag, the other resumes its empire over the mind, and never rests till it finds means to retrieve what it has lost:--he could now consider, that the money remitted to Bologne by Mr. Thoughtless, could be received by nobody but mademoiselle de Roquelair herself, and that it was probable, that gentleman, if told the usage had been given his sister, might be provoked to recall his order, and prevent the payment of it at all;--this seemed, however, a plausible pretence for persuading her to go away directly, and also for making a merit to his wife of what he did.
(IV.xix, p. 230; cf. p. 592 in Broadview ed.)

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9 entries in the ESTC (1751, 1752, 1762, 1765, 1768, 1772, 1783).

See Eliza Haywood, The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, In Four Volumes (London: Printed by T. Gardner, 1751). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>

Reading The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, ed. Christine Blouch (Peterborough: Broadview, 1998).

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