"Exert then the whole force of your reason to curb the incroachments of lawless passion in your own heart"
— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
T. Gardner
Date
1753
Metaphor
"Exert then the whole force of your reason to curb the incroachments of lawless passion in your own heart"
Metaphor in Context
"I have well consider'd the consequences which must infallibly attend your entering into an amorous engagement with me, and find that all the love I could offer in return would be too poor a recompence for those innumerable difficulties and dangers to which you would be perpetually exposed by it.
"Exert then the whole force of your reason to curb the incroachments of lawless passion in your own heart, and to disdain the shew of it in another;--set a true value on yourself, and believe that no man living can deserve that merely for the gratification of his desires you should sacrifice your honour,--virtue,--reputation,--peace of mind, and, in fine, all that is valuable in your sex.
(pp. 32-3)
"Exert then the whole force of your reason to curb the incroachments of lawless passion in your own heart, and to disdain the shew of it in another;--set a true value on yourself, and believe that no man living can deserve that merely for the gratification of his desires you should sacrifice your honour,--virtue,--reputation,--peace of mind, and, in fine, all that is valuable in your sex.
(pp. 32-3)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "law" in HDIS (Prose); found again "reason"
Citation
5 entries in ESTC (1753, 1769, 1776, 1785).
Haywood, Eliza. The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy. 3 vols. (London: Printed for T. Gardner, 1753).
Haywood, Eliza. The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy. 3 vols. (London: Printed for T. Gardner, 1753).
Date of Entry
04/25/2005
