page 55 of 143     per page:
sorted by:

Date: 1751

"A heart so capable of feeling all the force of love, must be a conquest worthy the most ardent pursuits"

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

preview | full record

Date: 1751

"Your wit, your youth, and beauty, have made an absolute conquest of my heart."

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

preview | full record

Date: 1751

"His good sense, however, at last convinced him, that as no solid happiness could be expected with a woman of miss Betsy's temper, he ought to conquer his passion for her."

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

preview | full record

Date: 1751

"[T]hat I have concealed my sentiments with so much care, you must impute to my fixed resolution of conquering a passion I could never hope to indulge with innocence"

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

preview | full record

Date: 1751

"[I]f you do not desire to have me miserable, conquer this fatal passion, and do not interrupt my endeavours to restore myself to that tranquillity which you have deprived me of"

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

preview | full record

Date: 1751

"Conquer your passion, if you are able"

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

preview | full record

Date: 1751

"Your wit, your youth, and beauty, have made an absolute conquest of my heart."

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

preview | full record

Date: 1751

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

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

preview | full record

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)

preview | full record

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)

preview | full record

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