Date: January 1, 1760 - January 1, 1762; 1762
"He revolved the late adventure of the coach, and the declaration of Mr. Clarke, with equal eagerness and astonishment; and was seized with the most ardent desire of unravelling a mystery so interesting to the predominant passion of his heart."
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: January 1, 1760 - January 1, 1762; 1762
A sacred idea may be throned within the heart and "cherished with such fervency of regard, with such reverence of affection, as the devout anchorite more unreasonably pays to those sainted reliques that constitute the object of his adoration"
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Date: January 1, 1760 - January 1, 1762; 1762
A woman may be "possessed of that vigour of mind which constitutes true fortitude, and vindicates the empire of reason"
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Date: 1769
One may gain "absolute empire over the mind" of another
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Date: 1771
"[T]he fumes of faction not only disturb the faculty of reason, but also pervert the organs of sense"
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Date: 1773
"But there was a judge in the bosom of Annesly, whom it was more difficult to satisfy; nor could he for a long time be brought to pardon himself that blow, for which the justice of his country had acquitted him."
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1773
"But he felt not that contrition which results from ingenuous sorrow for our offences; his soul was ruled by that gloomy demon, who looks only to the anguish of their punishment, and accuses the hand of providence, for calamity which himself has occasioned."
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Date: 1777
"Hide me, my friend, from the consciousness of my folly, or let it speak till its expiation be made, till I have banished Savillon from my mind ... Must I then banish him from my mind?"
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Date: 1777
"The love, to which at length I discovered my heart to be subject, had conquered without tumult, and become despotic under the semblance of freedom."
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