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Date: Tuesday, October 2, 1753
"Every other passion is alike simple and limited, if it be considered only with regard to the breast which it inhabits; the anatomy of the mind, as that of the body, must perpetually exhibit the same appearances; and though by the continued industry of successive inquirers, new movements will be ...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1754
A mind may be cast in a different mould
preview | full record— Clark [née Lewis], Esther (bap. 1716, d. 1794)
Date: 1754
One may spend their "life continually haunted with ghosts," formed by one's "own capricious imagination" enemies may be cherished in one's bosom
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)
Date: 1754
"But this I dare not propose, as I know it would shake his generous soul almost to madness: and was he even to consent that I should banish myself for his sake, my ghost would every day haunt his imagination, and we should be equally as miserable when separate, as we are now by being united."
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)
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)
Date: 1754
One may pursue his own predominant passion
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1754
"I was by him conveyed in imagination on the throne of judgment, and all nature seemed waiting with dependence on my determination."
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)
Date: 1754
Gratitude may raise a throne for someone in one's heart
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1754
An imaginary belief may leave the mind and "like an enraged conqueror it vacated not the town till it had put to the sword all its peaceful inhabitants, till it had ravaged and laid waste every joyous thought within her bosom"
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)
