Date: 1749
"In short, no sooner had the amorous Parley ended, and the Lady had unmasked the Royal Battery, by carelessly letting her Handkerchief drop from her Neck, than the Heart of Mr. Jones was entirely taken, and the fair Conqueror enjoyed the usual Fruits of her Victory."
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Date: 1749
"Mr. Fitzpatrick would never have found sufficient Opportunities to have engaged my Heart, which, in other Circumstances, I still flatter myself would not have been an easy Conquest to such a Person."
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Date: 1749
"He told his Nephew, 'he wished with all his Heart he would endeavour to conquer a Passion, in which I cannot,' says he, 'flatter you with any Hopes of succeeding."
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Date: 1751
"The eye, my dear, the wicked eye--has such a strict alliance with the heart--And both have such enmity to the judgment!"
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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"
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Date: 1751
"If a passion can be conquered, it is a sacrifice a good child owes to indulgent parents"
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Date: 1752
Affections struggle for superiority in the mind
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Date: 1752
"Upon the whole, however, she past a miserable and sleepless Night, her gentle Mind torn and distracted with various and contending Passions, distressed with Doubts, and wandring in a kind of Twilight, which presented her only Objects of different Degrees of Horrour, and where black Despair close...
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Date: 1752
Many "kind Words" and "many kind Looks" may make an entire Conquest of the Heart
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Date: 1754
"Can I regain him, if I conquer that not ignoble vehemence of a great mind?"
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