Date: 1742
One may be "a great Enemy to the Passions" and, like Parson Adams, preach "nothing more than the Conquest of them by Reason and Grace"
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Date: 1742
"Yes, Joseph, my Eyes whether I would or no, must have declared a Passion I cannot conquer"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1742
"Yes, I thank Heaven and my Pride, I have now perfectly conquered this unworthy Passion"
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Date: 1742
"Not the gross act alone employs her pen; / She reconnoitres Fancy's airy band, / A watchful foe! the formidable spy, / Listening, o'erhears the whispers of our camp; / Our dawning purposes of heart explores, / And steals our embryos of iniquity."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"Speech ventilates our intellectual fire; / Speech burnishes our mental magazine, / Brightens for ornament, and whets for use."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
God may "conquer my rebellious will, / And bid my murmuring heart 'Be Still.'"
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Date: 1742
"[I]t ought rather to be a Rule with Parents, who shall chastize their Children, to conquer what would be extreme in their own Passion" rather than to defer punishment
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1743
It may cost one "more struggling than may easily be believed, utterly to conquer his Reluctance, and to banish away every Degree of Humanity from his Mind"
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Date: 1743
Rage at the Disappointment of Love and Pride, and at the finding a Passion fixed in my Breast one knows not how to conquer may break "out into that inconsistent Behaviour, which must always be the Consequence of violent Passions"
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Date: 1743
"[F]inding a Passion fixed in my Breast I knew not how to conquer, broke out into that inconsistent Behaviour, which must always be the Consequence of violent Passions"
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