Date: 1751
"For partly the Recommendation of his Person, but chiefly the Profusion of his Expences made her think him a very desireable Lover; and as she saw that his ruling Passion was Vanity, she was too good a Dissembler, and too much a Mistress of her Trade, not to flatter this Weakness for her own Ends."
preview | full record— Coventry, (William) Francis Walter (1725-1753/4)
Date: 1751
"Whereas those darts, which fly from the perfections of the mind, penetrate into the soul, and fix a lasting empire there."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1751
"Nothing of body, when friend writes to friend; the mind impelling sovereignly the vassal-fingers."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1752
"Ambition scarce ever produces any Evil, but when it reigns in cruel and savage Bosoms; and Avarice seldom flourishes at all but in the basest and poorest Soil."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1752
The "blind Guidance" of a predominant passion may account for "the Success of Knaves, the Calamities of Fools," and "all the miseries in which Men of Sense sometimes involve themsleves"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1753
Anger and contempt may be predominant passions of the mind
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1753
Indignation and Sorrow may be predominant passions
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1753
"Exert then the whole force of your reason to curb the incroachments of lawless passion in your own heart"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1754
"There appears to be but two grand master passions or movers in the human mind, namely, Love and Pride."
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)
Date: 1754
There are "inherent and predominant" passions in the soul
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)