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Date: 1747

"Forbear to show thy heavenly Art, / Nor aim a Conquest o'er my Mind."

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

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Date: 1747

"Why can I not this fatal Flame remove? / Or why, O why is it a Crime to love? / By Turns my Reason and my Passion sway, / As Honour triumphs, and as Love betray; / My tortur'd Breast conflicting Passions tear, / And Love and Virtue wage unequal War."

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

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Date: 1747

"AH cease to grieve, fond fluttering Heart, / Thy charming Conqueror returns; / Hence every Doubt each Fear depart, / The Youth with equal Passion burns."

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

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Date: 1747

"Love only could conquer so stubborn an heart"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1747

Jesus can vindicate his "right Divine" and "Conquer this rebellious heart"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1748

The passions may be at war

— Pilkington, Laetitia (c. 1709-1750)

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Date: 1747-8

"O Jack! what a difficulty must a man be allowed to have, to conquer a predominant passion, be it what it will, when the gratifying of it is in his power, however wrong he knows it to be to resolve to gratify it!"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

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Date: 1747-8

"Souls know no conquerors."

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

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Date: 1747-8

"In the other, the poet says not truth; for Conscience is the Conqueror of Souls: At least it is the Conqueror of mine: And who ever thought it a narrow one?"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

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Date: 1747-8

One may have a soul like a shield that "take in all" of Fortune's quiver

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.