Date: 1754
"I found I had given a loose to a passion which had no other end but to make me frantic, and consequently miserable; and yet insupportable as my life was, and altho' the alteration of Eustace had taken from me the gratification of this whirlwind of passion, yet was I caught in such a snare...
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)
Date: 1754
"I resolved to make the experiment whether you could conquer your passion when your esteem was lost"
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)
Date: 1755
"Like Death impartial, [Love] presents his Dart, / And sure to conquer, aims at ev'ry Heart"
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1758
"COME, Epictetus, arm my breast / With thy impenetrable steel, / No more the wounds of grief to feel, / Nor mourn, by others' woes deprest."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1758
Here lurks DISTEMPER's horrid train / And there the PASSIONS lift their flaming brands; / These with fell rage my helpless body tear, / While those, with daring hands, / Against th' immortal soul their impious weapons rear."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1759
"It is difficult to conquer the Passions, but it is impossible to satisfy them"
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1759
"[Y]et such was the Strength of his Passions, that he could not immediately conquer his Love"
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1762
"I learnt, that when these people were first rescued out of their misery, their healths were much impaired, and their tempers more so: to restore the first, all medicinal care was taken, and air and exercise assisted greatly in their recovery; but to cure the malady of the mind, and conquer that ...
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1762
"The constant sense of my guilt, the continual regret at having by my own ill conduct forfeited the happiness, which every action of Lord Peyton's proved that his wife might reasonably expect, fixed a degree of melancholy on my mind, which no time has been able to conquer."
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1762
"Unfortunately Miss Melvyn's charms made a conquest of this gentleman, in whom age had not gained a victory over passion."
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)