text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"De la Valiere having related to him some particulars of the late campaign, which the public accounts had been deficient in, they passed from that to some talk of the brave young king of Sweden, a topic which filled all Europe with admiration: but the French being a people in whom the love of glory is the predominant passion, were more than any other nation charmed with the greatness of that prince's soul.
",2011-04-26 18:39:22 UTC,"""but the French being a people in whom the love of glory is the predominant passion, were more than any other nation charmed with the greatness of that prince's soul.""",2004-06-05 00:00:00 UTC,Chapter 9,Ruling Passion,,"",•C-H has archived the second edition. ,"Searching ""predominant passion"" in HDIS",12530,4743
"When he had done, I am much obliged, said he, to the zeal these letters tell me you have expressed for my service, and shall not be ungrateful:--we are here idle at present, but shall not long be so; and you will have occasions enough to prove your courage, and gratify that love of arms which, my brother informs me, is the predominant passion of your soul.",2011-04-26 18:39:58 UTC,"""[W]e are here idle at present, but shall not long be so; and you will have occasions enough to prove your courage, and gratify that love of arms which, my brother informs me, is the predominant passion of your soul.""",2004-06-05 00:00:00 UTC,Chapter 17,Ruling Passion,,"",•C-H has archived the second edition. ,"Searching ""predominant passion"" in HDIS",12531,4743
"Mr. Trueworth was perfectly ravished at hearing her speak thus, but durst not express himself with too much warmth on the occasion:--'It must be confessed, madam,' replied he, 'that the beauties of the person, when not accompanied by those of the mind, afford but a short liv'd triumph to the fair possessor;--they dazzle at first sight, and take the senses as it were by surprise; but the impression soon wears off, and the captivated heart regains its former liberty, --nay, perhaps, wonders at itself for having been enslaved:--whereas those darts, which fly from the perfections of the mind, penetrate into the soul, and fix a lasting empire there;--but when both these charms shall happen to be united, as in the lovely Harriot,' continued he, taking one of her hands and kissing it;--'When in the most enchanting form that nature ever made, is found a soul enriched with every virtue, --every grace,--how indissoluble is the chain!--how glorious the bondage!'",2014-09-02 21:26:39 UTC,"""Whereas those darts, which fly from the perfections of the mind, penetrate into the soul, and fix a lasting empire there.""",2004-08-11 00:00:00 UTC,"Volume III, chapter vii","",,Empire,"","Searching ""empire"" and ""mind"" in HDIS (prose)",12973,4864
"While the blood runs high, and desire is rampant for possession, prudence is of little force; but when the one begins to flag, the other resumes its empire over the mind, and never rests till it finds means to retrieve what it has lost:--he could now consider, that the money remitted to Bologne by Mr. Thoughtless, could be received by nobody but mademoiselle de Roquelair herself, and that it was probable, that gentleman, if told the usage had been given his sister, might be provoked to recall his order, and prevent the payment of it at all;--this seemed, however, a plausible pretence for persuading her to go away directly, and also for making a merit to his wife of what he did.
(IV.xix, p. 230; cf. p. 592 in Broadview ed.)",2014-06-30 20:05:36 UTC,"""While the blood runs high, and desire is rampant for possession, prudence is of little force; but when the one begins to flag, the other resumes its empire over the mind, and never rests till it finds means to retrieve what it has lost""",2004-08-11 00:00:00 UTC,"Vol. IV, chapter 19","",2012-03-28,Empire,"","Searching ""empire"" and ""mind"" in HDIS (Prose)",12975,4864
"'Charming declaration--transporting --ravishing to thought,' cried he, kissing her hand,--'Oh had I known it sooner, engaged as I then was to one, who well deserved my love, could I have guessed miss Betsy Thoughtless was the contriver of that tender fraud, I know not what revolution might have happened in my heart! the empire you had there, was never totally extirpated, and kindness might have regained what cruelty had lost:'--'Do not deceive yourself, sir, said she, interrupting him with all the courage she could assume, 'nor mistake that for love, which was only the effects of mere gratitude:' These words were accompanied with a look, which once would have struck him with the most submissive awe, but he was now too well acquainted with the sentiments she had for him to be deterred by any other outward shew of coldness;--'Call it by what name you please,' cried he, 'so you permit me the continuance of it, and vouchsafe me the same favours you bestow on my insensible resemblance.' --In speaking this, he threw his arms about her waist, not regarding the efforts she made to hinder him, and clasp'd her to his breast with a vehemence, which in all his days of courtship to her he never durst attempt: --'Forbear, sir,' said she, 'you know I am not at liberty to be entertained with discourses, nor with actions of this nature;--loose me this moment, or be assured all the kind thoughts I had of you, and on which you have too much presumed, will be converted into the extremest hate and detestation.' --The voice, in which she uttered this menace; convincing him how much she was in earnest; he let go his hold, removed some paces from her, and beheld her for some moments with a silent admiration:--'I have obeyed you, madam,' cried he, with a deep sigh,-- 'you are all angel--be all angel still, far be it from me to tempt you from the glorious height you stand in; yet how unhappy has this interview made made me! --I love you without daring even to wish for a return; nay so fully has your virtue conquered, that I must love you more for the repulse you have given my too audacious hopes;-- you may at least pity the fate to which I am condemned.'
(pp. 266-7)",2013-09-18 15:32:22 UTC,"""Oh had I known it sooner, engaged as I then was to one, who well deserved my love, could I have guessed miss Betsy Thoughtless was the contriver of that tender fraud, I know not what revolution might have happened in my heart! the empire you had there, was never totally extirpated, and kindness might have regained what cruelty had lost.""",2004-08-16 00:00:00 UTC,"Volume IV, chapter 21","",,Empire,"•I've included twice: Empire and Extirpation
•Three times: adding revolution","Searching ""empire"" and ""heart"" in HDIS (prose)",12977,4864
"It would be difficult to decide, whether anger or contempt was the most predominant passion in the mind of mr. Lovegrove on reading the above:--he resolved, however, not to suffer the insolence of that bad man to go unpunish'd, but went very early the next morning to his lodgings, in order either to force from him the satisfaction he required: or still persisting to refuse it, to give him such treatment as men are ordinarily accustom'd to receive after behaving in the manner he had done.
(II.iii)",2009-09-14 19:37:48 UTC,Anger and contempt may be predominant passions of the mind,2004-06-05 00:00:00 UTC,"",Ruling Passion,,"","","Searching ""predominant passion"" in HDIS",13129,4892
"""I have well consider'd the consequences which must infallibly attend your entering into an amorous engagement with me, and find that all the love I could offer in return would be too poor a recompence for those innumerable difficulties and dangers to which you would be perpetually exposed by it.
""Exert then the whole force of your reason to curb the incroachments of lawless passion in your own heart, and to disdain the shew of it in another;--set a true value on yourself, and believe that no man living can deserve that merely for the gratification of his desires you should sacrifice your honour,--virtue,--reputation,--peace of mind, and, in fine, all that is valuable in your sex.
(pp. 32-3)",2009-09-14 19:37:54 UTC,"""Exert then the whole force of your reason to curb the incroachments of lawless passion in your own heart""",2005-04-25 00:00:00 UTC,"Vol 3, Chapt. 3","",,Court,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""law"" in HDIS (Prose); found again ""reason""",13164,4892