Date: 1769
"The narrowness of my fortune, which I see in a much stronger light in this land of luxury, and the apparent impossibility of placing the most charming of women in the station my heart wishes, give me anxieties which my reason cannot conquer."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1769
"Do not be alarmed for me; reason and the impossibility of success will conquer my passion for this angelic woman"
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1769
"That this preference had, however, been salutary, though painful; since it had determined her to conquer a passion, which could only make her life wretched if it continued."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1770
"I acknowlege myself coxcomb enough to have been pleased with the conquest of a heart on which I set not the least value"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1773
"O Wisdom! if thy soft controul / Can soothe the sickness of the soul, / Can bid the warring passions cease, / And breathe the calm of tender peace;-- / Wisdom! I bless thy gentle sway, / And ever, ever will obey."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
"By accustoming yourself thus to conquer and disappoint your anger, you will, by degrees, find it grow weak and manageable, so as to leave your reason at liberty."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1773
"Another method of conquering this enemy [the passions], is to abstract our minds from that attention to trifling circumstances, which usually creates this uneasiness."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1773
"Virtue that breast without a conflict gained, / And easy, like a native monarch, reigned."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1775
"Body may be overcome by body, but the mind only can conquer itself."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1775
"This my success in search of Friendship's grove, / Where Liberty and Peace I hoped to find, / And soften'd thus with Grief, deceitful Love, / In Friendship's borrow'd garb, attack'd my mind."
preview | full record— Miss H******* (fl. 1751-1775)