Date: 1751
Clarissa, if any "woman ever could, would have given a glorious instance of a passion conquered, or at least kept under, by Reason, and by Piety"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1751
"[T]hat I have concealed my sentiments with so much care, you must impute to my fixed resolution of conquering a passion I could never hope to indulge with innocence"
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1751
"[I]f you do not desire to have me miserable, conquer this fatal passion, and do not interrupt my endeavours to restore myself to that tranquillity which you have deprived me of"
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1751
"Conquer your passion, if you are able"
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1751
"Your wit, your youth, and beauty, have made an absolute conquest of my heart."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1751
"If a passion can be conquered, it is a sacrifice a good child owes to indulgent parents"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1751
One may make a plan to make a conquest of a heart, which is "not very susceptible of tender impressions; but, on the contrary, fortified with insensibility and prejudice against the charms of the whole sex"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1751
"[H]e could not help gazing at her with desire, and forming the design of making a conquest of her heart"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1751
One may behave with such generosity as to make" an absolute conquest" of a woman's heart
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1751
One may act as if he had "gained an absolute conquest over all the passions of the heart"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)