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Date: 1785
Play [gambling] may be a ruling passion
preview | full record— MacNally, Leonard (1752-1820)
Date: 1785
"I was surpriz'd, taken unawares, passion ran away with me like an unbroke horse: but I have got him under now; I can govern him with a twine of thread."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1786
Love of admiration may be a ruling passion
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: 1788
Lovers are governed by Cupid and must obey the "laws of a monarch, whose throne is the heart"
preview | full record— Cobb, James (1756-1818)
Date: 1789, 1797
"Still in this breast shall dearest Emma reign, / Nor e'er my will your virgin choice shall sway."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George Monck (1763-1793)
