Date: 1749
"The Remembrance of past Pleasures affects us with a kind of tender Grief, like what we suffer for departed Friends; and the Ideas of both may be said to haunt our Imaginations"
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Date: 1749
A "Somewhat" may inhabit in the human breast that resembles the "famous Trunkmaker in the Playhouse"
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Date: 1749
The internal "Somewhat" may be considered "as sitting on its Throne in the Mind, like the Lord High Chancellor of this Kingdom in his Court; where it presides, governs, directs, judges, acquits and condemns according to Merit and Justice; with a Knowledge which nothing escapes, a Penetration whic...
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Date: 1749
"Thus, not all the Charms of the incomparable Sophia; not all the dazzling Brightness, and languishing Softness of her Eyes; the Harmony of her Voice, and of her Person; not all her Wit, good Humour, Greatness of Mind, or Sweetness of Disposition, had been able so absolutely to conquer and enslav...
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Date: 1749
"I am not used, Madam, said Jones, to submit to such sudden Conquests; but as you have taken my Heart by Surprize, the rest of my Body hath a Right to follow"
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Date: 1749
The "internal Somewhat" may be considered "as sitting on its Throne in the Mind, like the Lord High Chancellor of this Kingdom in his Court; where it presides, governs, directs, judges, acquits and condemns according to Merit and Justice; with a Knowledge which nothing escapes, a Penetration whic...
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Date: 1749
One may feel a "glowing Warmth" which fills the Breast, on the first Contemplation of a Victory over his Passion
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Date: 1749
"Sophia soon returned to his Imagination, and allayed the Joy of his Triumph with no less bitter Pangs than a good-natured General must feel when he surveys the bleeding Heaps, at the Price of whose Blood he hath purchased his Laurels; for thousands of tender Ideas lay murdered before our ...
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Date: 1749
One may make "many ardent Professions of Passion which nothing could conquer"
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Date: 1749
"Indeed what Square had said sunk very deeply into his Mind, and the Uneasiness which it there created was very visible to the other"
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