Date: 1724, 1725
"[Love] that Tyrant Passion lords it o'er the Mind, fills every Faculty, and leaves no room for any other Thought--drives Consideration far away--overturns Reflection-- and permits no Image but itself to dwell in Fancy's Region"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1725
A child may be governed Reason and her Father, unless she (like the rest of the "ungovernable Sex") think her own will her best adviser
preview | full record— Davys, Mary (1674-1732)
Date: 1726
"[I]n vain I strove to conquer a Passion that had mingled with my Soul, and reigned in every Vein"
preview | full record— Aubin, Penelope (1679?-1731?)
Date: 1726
"Reason alone is sufficient to govern a Rational Creature; which was therefore a Character we had no Pretence to challenge"
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: [1726]
"I will not (continued the God of tender Wishes) prolong the little Narrative I have to make you, by a repetition of her Lamentations when alone, and at liberty to indulge them; you may believe they were extremely violent, and suitable to the Occasion: but as soon as Reason had the power of resum...
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: [1726]
"Endeavour at least, to throw each darling Failing from thy Soul; and those Reflections which, in thy coolest Hours of Thought, Reason inspires, retain about thee always; then canst thou never be by any ill Passion sway'd, nor do a Deed which Conscience can condemn: Conscience and Reason still go...
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: [1726]
"Being alone, under the pretence of diverting her Melancholy, he desir’d to sup with her, which she consented to with pleasure; but he took care in filling out the Wine to mingle something in it of a more intoxicating kind, which tho’ she drank of but with moderation, had the effect he aim’d at, ...
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1727
Men's Reason "tyes them down to Rules," while women, "like Sampson break the trifling Twine and laugh at every Obstacle that would oppose [their] pleasure"
preview | full record— Davys, Mary (1674-1732)
Date: 1727
Women have the same "Passions and Inclinations [as Men], which when let loose without a Curb, grow wild and untameable, defy all Laws and Rules, and can be subdued by nothing but what they are seldom Mistresses of"
preview | full record— Davys, Mary (1674-1732)
Date: 1736
"One there was, over whose Heart her Beauty still retain'd its Empire; he was call'd Ochihatou, and had, for many Years, ruled every thing in Hypotofa, tho' Oeros, the King thereof, was living; but, as he had so great a Share in the Adventures of Eovaai, it's proper to give a more particular Acco...
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)