Date: 1733

Base usurpers of the soul may be gone, "and Reason long depos'd regains her Throne"

— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)

Date: 1733

Reason's "clear Mirror" can reflect the past actions and represent passions

— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)

Date: w. before June 1735?

"Let vows or benefits the vulgar bind, / Such ties can never chain th' intrepid mind."

— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)

Date: 1736

"He illustrated this Truth by many Arguments, as well as by a great Number of Examples from the History of past Times, and his own Observation of the present; and that what he said to her might be the more deeply imprinted on her Mind, he obliged her every day to repeat to him the Subject of thei...

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

Date: 1736

"As she was one day sitting alone in her Garden, ruminating on the last Words of her Father, and the strict Injunction laid on her concerning the Carcanet, Emotions, to which hitherto she had been a Stranger, began to diffuse themselves throughout her Mind."

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

Date: 1736

"Philosophy was incapable of affording her any Relief, and all her Reason served only to paint the Unhappiness of her Condition in the stronger Colours."

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

Date: 1736

"One there was, over whose Heart her Beauty still retain'd its Empire; he was call'd Ochihatou, and had, for many Years, ruled every thing in Hypotofa, tho' Oeros, the King thereof, was living; but, as he had so great a Share in the Adventures of Eovaai, it's proper to give a more particular Acco...

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

Date: 1736

"She was pleased with the Person and Address of her Lover; her Heart confessed the Impression he had made on it; the tender Impulse thrill'd in every Part; she languish'd; she almost died away between his Arms."

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

Date: 1736

"That Ypre, which inspires the Lust of arbitrary Sway, now twisted its envenom'd Tail round the Heart of Eovaai; and, in an instant, erased all the Maxims the wise Eojaeu had endeavoured to establish there: so easy is it for the best Natures to be perverted, when Example rouses up the Sparks of s...

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

Date: 1736

"She at first excused herself as being no Proficient in the Art; but he would not be denied: and as she could do nothing which had not in it a peculiar Grace, the Sweetness of her Motions, join'd to the Liberties the Example of others seem'd to authorize him to take with her, added new Fires to h...

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