Date: 1769
"The narrowness of my fortune, which I see in a much stronger light in this land of luxury, and the apparent impossibility of placing the most charming of women in the station my heart wishes, give me anxieties which my reason cannot conquer."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1769
"Do not be alarmed for me; reason and the impossibility of success will conquer my passion for this angelic woman"
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1769
"That this preference had, however, been salutary, though painful; since it had determined her to conquer a passion, which could only make her life wretched if it continued."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1773
"O Wisdom! if thy soft controul / Can soothe the sickness of the soul, / Can bid the warring passions cease, / And breathe the calm of tender peace;-- / Wisdom! I bless thy gentle sway, / And ever, ever will obey."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
"By accustoming yourself thus to conquer and disappoint your anger, you will, by degrees, find it grow weak and manageable, so as to leave your reason at liberty."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1773
"Another method of conquering this enemy [the passions], is to abstract our minds from that attention to trifling circumstances, which usually creates this uneasiness."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1773
"Virtue that breast without a conflict gained, / And easy, like a native monarch, reigned."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1777
"But it is their nature never to observe a neutrality; they are either rebels or auxiliaries, and an enemy subdued is an ally obtained."
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: 1778
"Still our joys are not complete, / Doubts and fears our minds invading / Till your gentle smiles we meet"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1778, 1779
"I was totally spiritless and dejected; the idea of the approaching meeting,--and oh Sir, the idea of the approaching parting,--gave a heaviness to my heart, that I could neither conquer nor repress."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)