Date: 1860
"There were passions at war in Maggie at that moment to have made a tragedy, if tragedies were made by passion only, but the essential ti megethos which was present in the passion, was wanting to the action; the utmost Maggie could do, with a fierce thrust of her small brown arm, was to pu...
preview | full record— Eliot, George (1819-1880)
Date: 1860
"While Maggie's life-struggles had lain almost entirely within her own soul, one shadowy army fighting another, and the slain shadows for ever rising again, Tom was engaged in a dustier, noisier warfare, grappling with more substantial obstacles, and gaining more definite conquests."
preview | full record— Eliot, George (1819-1880)
Date: 1860
"What you call self-conquest -- blinding and deafening yourself to all but one train of impressions, is only the culture of monomania in a nature like yours."
preview | full record— Eliot, George (1819-1880)
Date: 1860
"Yes! I have had feelings to struggle with - but I conquered them."
preview | full record— Eliot, George (1819-1880)
Date: 1862
"Intestine war no more our passions wage; / E'en giddy factions hear away their rage."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)
Date: 1868
"My soul redeem'd from Satan's toils / Now for Thy lawful captive claim."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1888
"I thank whatever gods may be / For my unconquerable soul."
preview | full record— Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903)
Date: 1900
"One of these two must ever be, viz., that a man has his fancies in right discipline, turning, leading, and commanding them; or they him. Either they must deal with him, take him up short (as they say), teach him manners, and make him know to whom he belongs; or, this will be his part to teach th...
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)
Date: 1919
"My memories simply trooped the colour."
preview | full record— Cummings, Bruce Frederick [pseud. W. N. P. Barbellion] (1889-1919)
Date: 1928
"As Irish Lovers use to make Address / By Darting Rushes at their Mistresses, / That do more Execution then the Darts / And Bows and Arrows [are] us'd to Conquer hearts."
preview | full record— Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)