Date: 1744, 1753
"But alas! better had it been for us both, had she for ever shut herself from the World, and spent her time in conquering, instead of endeavouring to gratify and indulge her Passion."
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Date: 1744, 1753
"I can now sit in my Bed with a calm Resignation, to which my conquered Mind has been long a Stranger."
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1744, 1753
"At last it came into my head to try if he was generous enough to conquer his own Passion, rather than be the Cause of my being unhappy."
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1744, 1753
"CAMILLA heard him out, and then told him, she would do any thing in her power to serve him; but advised him, if possible, to try to conquer his Passion."
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Date: 1747
"Strange force of Harmony, whose Power controuls, / The warring Passions, and informs our Souls, / Soft soothing Sounds, by whose enchantment blest, / Anger and Grief forsake the tranquil Breast; / While soft Ideas rising in the Mind, / Bids us in Love a gentle Tyrant find, / And to his Sway the ...
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1747
"Beware the fatal Passion you inspire: / Each soft intruding Wish in Time reprove, / And guard against the sweet Envader Love."
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Date: 1747
"Forbear to show thy heavenly Art, / Nor aim a Conquest o'er my Mind."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1747
"Why can I not this fatal Flame remove? / Or why, O why is it a Crime to love? / By Turns my Reason and my Passion sway, / As Honour triumphs, and as Love betray; / My tortur'd Breast conflicting Passions tear, / And Love and Virtue wage unequal War."
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Date: 1747
"AH cease to grieve, fond fluttering Heart, / Thy charming Conqueror returns; / Hence every Doubt each Fear depart, / The Youth with equal Passion burns."
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Date: 1751
"I still flatter'd myself, that I should be able to maintain the resolution I had taken, during my short disgrace, of conquering my coquettish inclinations: but an accidental sight of Dumont, (who bow'd to me as I pass'd, giving me, at the same time, a passionate look) immediately roused my sleep...
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