Date: December 6, 1765
One may fell Love's vengeful Shaft transfix her heart "And yield to [it] the Empire of [her] Soul]
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Date: December 6, 1765
"Then fly from Shape to Shape, / Yet hope not to escape, / My Chains enclose your Heart."
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Date: 1770
"This Night we'd fix her [the Muse of Comedy's] Empire in your Hearts."
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Date: 1771
"But, Sir, my passions are my masters; they take me where they will; and oftentimes they leave to reason and to virtue nothing but my wishes and my sighs."
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Date: 1772
One may weed out unmanly prejudice from the hearts of his countrymen
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Date: 1772
"Oh! if my fate depends upon her looks, they must be iron hearts that can withstand 'em."
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Date: 1774
"Oh, there's been precious doings with the Hearts of Steel"
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Date: 1785
"While in high life our hearts the fashions steel, / Too gay to listen, and too fine to feel--"
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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."
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Date: 1789
"I would not be thought to undervalue worldly enjoyments, nor outward appearances: but I look into the interior of a man; I study the character, that is my habit."
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