Date: 1754
"The more desirable the object, the nobler the conquest of your passion, if it is to be overcome"
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Date: 1754
One may take pains to conquer "sudden gusts of passion"
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Date: 1754
One may resolve "either to conquer [a] passion, or die"
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Date: 1754
One may "sacrifice even her religion, if it were insisted upon, to the passion she had so long in vain endeavoured to conquer"
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Date: 1754
One may endeavor to conquer her passion
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Date: 1754
"my conquest of my passion is at least as glorious for me, as his is for him"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1754
One may propose a tour in order to conquer a passion and establish his health
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Date: 1754
Two charming maids may be "By nature form'd to conquer hearts"
preview | full record— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
Date: 1755
"Like Death impartial, [Love] presents his Dart, / And sure to conquer, aims at ev'ry Heart"
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Date: 1756
"I ask not Her heart, but would conquer my own"
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