Date: 1760-7
"However, as he knew not what the true cause might turn out, he deemed it most prudent, in the situation he was in at present, to bear it, if possible, like a stoick; which, with the help of some wry faces and compursions of the mouth, he had certainly accomplished, had his imagination continued ...
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1760-7
"It is curious to observe the triumph of slight incidents over the mind:--What incredible weight they have in forming and governing our opinions, both of men and things,--that trifles light as air, shall waft a belief into the soul, and plant it so immoveably within it,--that Euclid's de...
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Date: 1761
One may sacrifice an over-ruling passion to the sober calls of reason and humanity
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1761
"I hope 'tis nothing but her extreme sensibility, and that after those first violent struggles are over, reason and discretion will reassume their empire."
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1761
"We are indeed so much used to what they call poetical justice, that we are disappointed in the catastrophe of a fable, if every body concerned in it be not disposed of according to the sentence of that judge which we have set up in our own breasts"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1761
"I have been a slave to a hopeless passion too long; I am now resolved to struggle with my chains: you, Madam, must assist me in breaking them intirely; and I make no doubt but that time, joined to my own efforts, and aided by your sweetness of disposition, your tenderness, and admirable sense, w...
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: Published serially, 1765-1770
The "Action and Reaction" of different Estates "produces that general and systematic Controul which, like Conscience, pervades and superintends the Whole, checking and prohibiting Evil from every Part of the Constitution"
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Date: Published serially, 1765-1770
A beloved may be a "Regent within" and "sit throned in [a lover's] Heart"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: Published serially, 1765-1770
An affection may get "an habitual Empire in the Mind"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: Published serially, 1765-1770
"But I see another Law in my Members, warring against the Law of my Mind, and bringing me into Captivity to the Law of Sin, which is in my Members."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)