Date: 1754
"For my mind is not so conquered, but in this retirement, supported by innocence, I can find such enjoyments as I fear (with the deepest sorrow I express myself) you, O Ferdinand, can never taste again."
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Date: 1754
"Think not, mistaken Oliver, that because I have never declared my knowledge of the base malignity of your heart (which I would gladly have hid even from myself) that I have not perceived your vain efforts of conquering my mind and rendering me miserable."
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Date: 1754
"Can I regain him, if I conquer that not ignoble vehemence of a great mind?"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1754
One's judgment may be at war with her passion
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Date: 1754
"The man's discover'd unworthiness, and your own discretion, enabled you to conquer a passion to which you had given way, supposing it unconquerable, because you thought it would cost you pains to contend with it"
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Date: 1754
"Had Sir Charles been actually married, would his being so, have enabled a woman's reason to triumph over her passion? --If so, passion is surely conquerable"
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Date: 1754
"She had therefore no reason to endeavour to conquer a passion not ignobly founded; and of which duty, judgment, and conscience, approved"
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Date: 1754
"You will be greater than Clementina, and that is greater than the greatest, if you can conquer a passion, that over-turned her reason"
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Date: 1754
"I found I had given a loose to a passion which had no other end but to make me frantic, and consequently miserable; and yet insupportable as my life was, and altho' the alteration of Eustace had taken from me the gratification of this whirlwind of passion, yet was I caught in such a snare...
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Date: 1754
"I resolved to make the experiment whether you could conquer your passion when your esteem was lost"
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