Date: 1719
"I found indeed some Intervals of Reflection, and the serious Thoughts did, as it were, endeavour to return again sometimes, but I shook them off, and rouz'd my self from them as it were from a Distemper, and applying my self to Drinking and Company, soon master'd the Return of those Fits, for so...
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1723
"The first Transports of his Passion being thus conquered, he began to be resigned"
preview | full record— Aubin, Penelope (1679?-1731?)
Date: 1723
"[Y]ou must use your Reason; conquer that Passion which is now unlawful and injurious to your repose"
preview | full record— Aubin, Penelope (1679?-1731?)