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"Age of Sensibility"
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Date: 1751
One may swell "with all the pride of flattered vanity" on a "new imaginary conquest over the heart" of an accomplished man
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1751
"'Yes, indeed,' added miss Betsy, "and threatens terrible things to every one, who should dare to dispute the conquest of my heart with him'"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1751
One may make "a conquest of a heart, without knowing it, which not the utmost endeavours of any other could ever subdue"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1751
A heart may be possessed of a "sincere and honourable flame"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1751
On waking one may feel "A darksome mist, which rises from my mind, /And, like sweet sun-shine, leaves your name behind"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1751
One may suffer "the poignant anguish of a bleeding heart"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1751
"His good sense, however, at last convinced him, that as no solid happiness could be expected with a woman of miss Betsy's temper, he ought to conquer his passion for her."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1751
"[E]nvy had ever been a stranger to her breast, yet since her own marriage, and that of mr. Trueworth with his lady, she had sometimes been tempted to accuse heaven of partiality, in making so wide a difference in their Fates"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1751
"Amongst the crowd of tormenting ideas, the remembrance, that she owed all the vexation she laboured under, entirely to the acquaintance she had with miss Forward, came strong into her thoughts"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1751
"The captain had a fund of great goodnature in his heart, but was somewhat too much addicted to passion, and frequently apt to resent without a cause, but when once convinced he had been in the wrong, no one could be more ready to acknowlege and ask pardon for his mistake."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
