Date: 1749
One may feel a "glowing Warmth" which fills the Breast, on the first Contemplation of a Victory over his Passion
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Date: 1749
"Sophia soon returned to his Imagination, and allayed the Joy of his Triumph with no less bitter Pangs than a good-natured General must feel when he surveys the bleeding Heaps, at the Price of whose Blood he hath purchased his Laurels; for thousands of tender Ideas lay murdered before our ...
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Date: 1749
One may make "many ardent Professions of Passion which nothing could conquer"
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Date: 1749
"Indeed what Square had said sunk very deeply into his Mind, and the Uneasiness which it there created was very visible to the other"
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Dirt or Rags cannot "hide this Something [in true Beauty] from those Souls which are not of the vulgar Stamp"
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Date: 1749
"[L]et the Remembrance of what past at Upton blot me for ever from your Mind"
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Date: 1749
"This Letter Lady Bellaston thought would certainly turn the Balance against Jones in the Mind of Sophia"
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Date: 1749
We may "consider a Book as the Author's Offspring, and indeed as the Child of his Brain"
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Date: 1749
"For such was the Compassion which inhabited Mr. Allworthy's Mind, that nothing but the Steel of Justice could ever subdue it. "
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Date: 1749
Plato, Aristotle, and other Greek authors "elevate the Mind, and steel and harden it against the capricious Invasions of Fortune."
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