Date: 1753
"Exert then the whole force of your reason to curb the incroachments of lawless passion in your own heart"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
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)
Date: 1754
"How often has that tender bosom, whose glory it would have been to melt at another's woe, and to rejoice in acts of kindness and benevolence to her fellow-creatures, been armed by herself (not the mistress, but the slave, of her passions) not with defensive, but offensive, steel!"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1759
The passions may "rebel against their proper Guide, and forcibly snatch the Reins out of the Hands of that Governor appointed to restrain and keep them within their own prescribed Bounds"
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1759
"You will easily believe that I was pleased with his courtesy; and finding that his predominant passion was desire of money, I began now to think my danger less, for I knew that no sum would be thought too great for the release of Pekuah."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)