Date: 1751
"Nothing of body, when friend writes to friend; the mind impelling sovereignly the vassal-fingers."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1752
"Ambition scarce ever produces any Evil, but when it reigns in cruel and savage Bosoms; and Avarice seldom flourishes at all but in the basest and poorest Soil."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1752
The "blind Guidance" of a predominant passion may account for "the Success of Knaves, the Calamities of Fools," and "all the miseries in which Men of Sense sometimes involve themsleves"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1753
Indignation and Sorrow may be predominant passions
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1754
One may pursue his own predominant passion
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1754
Gratitude may raise a throne for someone in one's heart
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1754
"You will be greater than Clementina, and that is greater than the greatest, if you can conquer a passion, that over-turned her reason"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1754
There is "narrow-hearted race of men, who live only for the gratification of their own lawless appetites, and consider all the rest of the world as made for themselves"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1754
"My brother, tho' in the main, above singularity, will, nevertheless, in things he thinks right, be govern'd by his own rules, which are the laws of reason and convenience."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1754
"Let [my love] be evermore circumscribed by the laws of reason, of duty"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)