Date: 1744
"TRAGEDY and COMEDY; the first fixes her Empire on the Passions, and the more exalted Contractions and Dilations of the Heart; the last, tho' not inferior (quotidem Science) holds her Rule over the less enobled Qualities and Districts of human Nature, which are call'd the Humours."
preview | full record— Garrick, David (1717-1779)
Date: 1744
"but the French being a people in whom the love of glory is the predominant passion, were more than any other nation charmed with the greatness of that prince's soul."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1744
"[W]e are here idle at present, but shall not long be so; and you will have occasions enough to prove your courage, and gratify that love of arms which, my brother informs me, is the predominant passion of your soul."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)