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Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
"For, let me tell my sweet Girl, that, after having been long tost by the boisterous Winds of a more culpable Passion, I have now conquer'd it, and am not so much the Victim of your Love, all charming as you are, as of your Virtue."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"And is it not philosophy carried to the highest pitch, for a man to conquer such tumults of soul as I am sometimes agitated by, and, in the very height of the storm, to be able to quaver out an horse-laugh?"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1754
One may take pains to conquer "sudden gusts of passion"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
