Date: 1745
"And therefore his suffering himself notwithstanding to be governed by them, shows that he hath too much neglected or misapplied his natural talent, and willingly submitted to the tyranny of those lusts and passions, over which nature had furnished him with abilities to have secured an easy conqu...
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Date: 1747
"Love only could conquer so stubborn an heart"
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Date: 1747
Jesus can vindicate his "right Divine" and "Conquer this rebellious heart"
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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!"
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Date: 1747-8
"Souls know no conquerors."
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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?"
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Date: 1747-8
One may have a soul like a shield that "take in all" of Fortune's quiver
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Date: 1747-8
"And is it not philosophy carried to the highest pitch, for a man to conquer such tumults of soul as I am sometimes agitated by, and, in the very height of the storm, to be able to quaver out an horse-laugh?"
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Date: 1747-8
Lovelace has not made "assiduity and obsequiousness, and a conquest of his unruly passions, any part of his study"
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Date: 1747-8
Lovelace has found, "[A] first passion thoroughly subdued, made the conqueror of it a rover; the conqueress a tyrant"
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