Date: 1796
"You know not the power of those irresistible, those fatal sentiments to which her heart was a prey."
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Date: 1796
"I should love you, I should doat on you! my bosom would become the prey of desires, which honour and my profession forbid me to gratify."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"The woman reigns in my bosom, and I am become a prey to the wildest of passions."
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Date: 1796
"Theodore perceived well enough that something preyed upon my mind; but as I concealed the cause of my grief even from him, respect would not permit him to pry into my secrets."
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Date: 1796
"Amidst the horror and disgust to which his soul was a prey, pity for his victim still held a place in it."
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Date: 1796
"Her passion continued to prey upon her heart in secret, and she had almost determined to confess her sentiments to her mother, when accident once more threw their object in her way."
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Date: 1797
"His numerous avocations and interests, however, seemed to prevent such anxiety from preying upon his mind; and, having dismissed persons in search of Vivaldi, he passed his time in the usual routine of company and the court."
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Date: 1799
Insinuations "breed suspicion" in the mind
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Date: 1799
"My unfledged fancy had not hitherto soared to this pitch."
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