Date: August 27, 1751
"At length weariness succeeds to labour, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments, without any desire of new conquests or excursions."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1752, 1790
A mind may be " Void of all coquettish arts, / And vain designs of conquering hearts"
preview | full record— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787)
Date: 1752
Affections struggle for superiority in the mind
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
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...
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1752
Many "kind Words" and "many kind Looks" may make an entire Conquest of the Heart
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1753
"Nature, that form'd you loveliest, doubly kind, / To like perfection, rais'd your conquering mind"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1753
"Say, coward learning! long, too long, misled! / If, yet, thou dar'st erect thy dizzy head! / And art not, yet, heart-conquer'd quite, / By power and custom join'd; too, too unequal fight!"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1753
"I have thought long of this; and my first Feelings were like yours; a foolish Conscience aw'd me, which soon I conquer'd."
preview | full record— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)
Date: 1754
"Can I regain him, if I conquer that not ignoble vehemence of a great mind?"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)