Date: Tuesday, March 12, 1751
"[T]hey therefore flattered his vanity, applauded his discoveries, and listened with submissive modesty to his lectures on the uncertainty of inclination, the weakness of resolves, and the instability of temper, to his account of the various motives which agitate the mind, and his ridicule of the...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1751
"She addressed herself to him with a familiar air, observing, that she had heard much of his great knowledge, and was come to be a witness of his art, which she desired him to display, in declaring what he knew to be her ruling passion."
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1751
One may meet with an object that disputes the empire of one's heart with a beloved
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1751
A beloved may acquire "the most absolute empire over" a lover's soul
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1751
"For partly the Recommendation of his Person, but chiefly the Profusion of his Expences made her think him a very desireable Lover; and as she saw that his ruling Passion was Vanity, she was too good a Dissembler, and too much a Mistress of her Trade, not to flatter this Weakness for her own Ends."
preview | full record— Coventry, (William) Francis Walter (1725-1753/4)
Date: 1751
"But sure thy mind was meant the court of love, / Soft as the joys, that yielding virgins move."
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Date: 1751, 1791
"Some few there are of sordid mould, / Who barter youth and bloom for gold; / Careless with what, or whom they mate, / Their ruling passion's all for state."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
Date: 1751, 1791
"To Fancy's court we strait apply, / And wait the sentence of her eye."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
Date: 1751, 1791
"The passions are a num'rous crowd, / Imperious, positive, and loud: / Curb these licentious sons of strife; / Hence chiefly rise the storms of life: / If they grow mutinous, and rave, / They are thy masters, thou their slave."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)