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Date: 1751

"[M]y mother's arguments had steeled his heart"

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

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Date: 1751

"[E]nvy had ever been a stranger to her breast, yet since her own marriage, and that of mr. Trueworth with his lady, she had sometimes been tempted to accuse heaven of partiality, in making so wide a difference in their Fates"

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

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Date: 1751

"Amongst the crowd of tormenting ideas, the remembrance, that she owed all the vexation she laboured under, entirely to the acquaintance she had with miss Forward, came strong into her thoughts"

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

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Date: 1751

"The captain had a fund of great goodnature in his heart, but was somewhat too much addicted to passion, and frequently apt to resent without a cause, but when once convinced he had been in the wrong, no one could be more ready to acknowlege and ask pardon for his mistake."

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

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Date: 1751

"Whereas those darts, which fly from the perfections of the mind, penetrate into the soul, and fix a lasting empire there."

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

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Date: 1752

"[T]he Sight of me will cause so many tumultuous Motions in the Soul of his Patient"

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

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Date: 1752

"Heroism, romantick Heroism, was rooted deeply in her Heart; it was her Habit of thinking, a Principle imbib'd from Education"

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

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Date: 1752

Thoughts may war with one another

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

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Date: 1752

"But, in order to place this momentous Affair in a true Light, 'tis necessary to go back a little, and acquaint the Reader with what had passed in the Apartment; and also, following the Custom of the Romance and novel-Writers, in the Heart, of our Heroine"

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

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Date: 1752

"Recall your wandring Thoughts; reflect upon the Dishonour you will bring upon yourself, by persisting in such unjustifiable Sentiments."

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.