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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Date: 1747-8
"There is no triumph in force! No conquest over the will! --No prevailing, by gentle degrees, over the gentle passions!"
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Date: 1747-8
Clarissa gives an instance "of a passion conquered, when there were so many inducements to give way to it"
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Date: 1749
Nature "corresponding with her sweet assailant," may invade "in the heart of [a woman's] capital," and carry it by storm, while she lays "at the mercy of the proud conqueror, who had made his entry triumphantly, and completely"
preview | full record— Cleland, John (bap. 1710, d. 1789)
Date: 1749
"Thus, not all the Charms of the incomparable Sophia; not all the dazzling Brightness, and languishing Softness of her Eyes; the Harmony of her Voice, and of her Person; not all her Wit, good Humour, Greatness of Mind, or Sweetness of Disposition, had been able so absolutely to conquer and enslav...
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Date: 1749
"I am not used, Madam, said Jones, to submit to such sudden Conquests; but as you have taken my Heart by Surprize, the rest of my Body hath a Right to follow"
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Date: 1749
One may feel a "glowing Warmth" which fills the Breast, on the first Contemplation of a Victory over his Passion
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Date: 1749
"Sophia soon returned to his Imagination, and allayed the Joy of his Triumph with no less bitter Pangs than a good-natured General must feel when he surveys the bleeding Heaps, at the Price of whose Blood he hath purchased his Laurels; for thousands of tender Ideas lay murdered before our ...
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Date: 1749
One may make "many ardent Professions of Passion which nothing could conquer"
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Date: 1749
Plato, Aristotle, and other Greek authors "elevate the Mind, and steel and harden it against the capricious Invasions of Fortune."
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