Date: 1751
"Conquer your passion, if you are able"
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1751
"Your wit, your youth, and beauty, have made an absolute conquest of my heart."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1751
"If a passion can be conquered, it is a sacrifice a good child owes to indulgent parents"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1751
"A Warfare of this Kind must indeed be a State of complete Misery, when all is Uproar within, and the distracted Heart set at Variance with itself."
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: Saturday, March 30, 1751
"Few minds will be long confined to severe and laborious meditation; and when a successful attack on knowledge has been made, the student recreates himself with the contemplation of his conquest, and forbears another incursion, till the new-acquired truth has become familiar, and his curiosity ca...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1751, 1791
"The passions are a num'rous crowd, / Imperious, positive, and loud: / Curb these licentious sons of strife; / Hence chiefly rise the storms of life: / If they grow mutinous, and rave, / They are thy masters, thou their slave."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
Date: Tuesday, January 22, 1751
"But they who are convinced of the necessity of breaking from this habitual drowsiness, too often relapse in spite of their resolution; for these ideal seducers are always near, and neither any particularity of time nor place is necessary to their influence; they invade the soul without warning, ...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: August 27, 1751
"At length weariness succeeds to labour, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments, without any desire of new conquests or excursions."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1752
"When cares invade your partner's heart, / Bear you a sympathising part, / And kindly claim your share of pain, / And half his troubles still sustain."
preview | full record— Clark [née Lewis], Esther (bap. 1716, d. 1794)
Date: 1752, 1790
A mind may be " Void of all coquettish arts, / And vain designs of conquering hearts"
preview | full record— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787)