Date: 1747-8
"How difficult does every man find it, as well as me, to forego a predominant passion? I have three passions that sway me by turns; all imperial ones. Love, Revenge, Ambition, or a desire of conquest."
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Date: 1747-8
"See that your own predominant passions, whatever they be, hurry you not into as much wickedness, as mine do me."
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Date: 1747-8
"Who, let me ask, that has it in his power to gratify a predominant passion, be it what it will, denies himself the gratification?"
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Date: 1747-8
"And if he does, it will demonstrate that malice and revenge were the predominant passions with him"
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Date: 1747-8
"Revenge, invoked I to myself, keep thy throne in my heart--If the usurper Love once more drive thee from it, thou wilt never regain possession!"
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Date: 1747-8
Power's "amplest, best Extent" is "An Empire o'er [one's] Mind"
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Date: 1748
"[F]ond anxiety, the glowing hopes, and chilling fears" may "rule [the] breast by turns"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1747-8
In the afterlife "to be worse than worst / Of those that lawless and uncertain thought / Imagines howling" is too horrible
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Date: 1749
"but to me they [natural impressions of surprize and admiration] sensibly prov'd the power and full dominion of the sole passion of my heart over me, a passion in which soul and body were concenter'd, and left me no room for any other relish of life but love"
preview | full record— Cleland, John (bap. 1710, d. 1789)
Date: 1749
The internal "Somewhat" may be considered "as sitting on its Throne in the Mind, like the Lord High Chancellor of this Kingdom in his Court; where it presides, governs, directs, judges, acquits and condemns according to Merit and Justice; with a Knowledge which nothing escapes, a Penetration whic...
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