Date: 1756
"Not only their Understandings labour continually, which is the severest Labour, but their Hearts are torn by the worst, most troublesome, and insatiable of all Passions, by Avarice, by Ambition, by Fear and Jealousy. No part of the Mind has Rest. Power gradually extirpates from the Mind every hu...
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1756
"What a rough war contending Passion keeps! / Now the storm's up; now, hah! by Heav'n he weeps."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1756, 1766
Do all married women "yield themselves intirely and universally to the government of conscience, subdue every thing to it, and conquer every adverse passion and inclination?"
preview | full record— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)
Date: 1756, 1766
Has reason always the sovereignty, and nothing wrong to be seen?
preview | full record— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)
Date: 1757-9
Peace and war alternately succeed in the lover
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]
Date: 1758
"There are few moralists who know how to arm our passions against one another."
preview | full record— Helvétius, Claude Adrien (1715-1771)
Date: 1759
"This order of passions, according to this system, was of a more generous and noble nature than the other. They were considered upon many occasions as the auxiliaries of reason, to check and restrain the inferior and brutal appetites. We are often angry at ourselves, it was observed, we often bec...
preview | full record— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)
Date: 1759
"Learn first, a Conquest, o'er yourselves, to gain, / That o'er our Sex, you may victorious reign."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Date: 1759
"Retire, my love, awhile; I'll come anon,-- / And fortify thy soul with firm resolve, / Becoming Zamti's wife."
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Date: 1759
"Bid them ne'er remit / Their high heroic ardor;--let them know, / Whate'er shall fall on this old mould'ring clay, / The tyrant never shall subdue my mind."
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)