Date: 1786
"From that awful period, almost every expectation is forlorn: the heart is left unguarded: its great protector is no more: the vices therefore, which so long encompassed it in vain, obtain an easy victory: in crouds they pour into the defenceless avenues, and take possession of the soul: there is...
preview | full record— Clarkson, Thomas (1760–1846)
Date: 1788
"But against this dangerous attack she endeavoured to fortify that sensible heart, by considering the probable event of her yielding to it."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1788
"Cursed be the hour I first indulged it, and cursed the weakness of mind that cannot conquer it!"
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1788
"she hoped that absence and reflection, together with the conviction of it's being hopeless, would conquer this infant passion before it could gather strength wholly to ruin his repose."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1788
"I attempted, indeed, at the beginning of our acquaintance--ah! how vainly attempted!--to conquer a passion which I believed was rendered hopeless by your prior engagement."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1786, 1787, 1788; 1789
"She can conquer a heart--that she wants sense to keep."
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1786, 1787, 1788; 1789
"For spells may be said to exist in that tone, / Whose graces can conquer all hearts--but her own."
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)