Date: 1751
"[H]e could not help gazing at her with desire, and forming the design of making a conquest of her heart"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1751
One may behave with such generosity as to make" an absolute conquest" of a woman's heart
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1751
One may act as if he had "gained an absolute conquest over all the passions of the heart"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1751
One may look upon his love for a woman "as a passion which it was necessary, at any rate, to conquer or suppress"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1751, 1791
"The passions are a num'rous crowd, / Imperious, positive, and loud: / Curb these licentious sons of strife; / Hence chiefly rise the storms of life: / If they grow mutinous, and rave, / They are thy masters, thou their slave."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
Date: Tuesday, January 22, 1751
"But they who are convinced of the necessity of breaking from this habitual drowsiness, too often relapse in spite of their resolution; for these ideal seducers are always near, and neither any particularity of time nor place is necessary to their influence; they invade the soul without warning, ...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
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
"Assist me, Furies, with your hellish Aid, / Nor let the Tyrant Conscience more invade; / Since I am stain'd with Blood, thro' Blood I'll wade."
preview | full record— Gentleman, Francis (1728-1784)
Date: 1752
Affections struggle for superiority in the mind
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)