Date: 1739
"Oh! Lack-a-day, I have Don John at Finger's ends, and know your Heart to be the greatest Rambler in the World; 'tis pleas'd to run from Chains to Chains, and never loves to rest in one Place."
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Date: 1739
Reason may be "lost in good Wine," but "All the Fumes will away / That did the bright Regent confine"
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Date: 1739
"What Law of Beauty gives her the Empire over all Hearts?"
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Date: 1739
"These are the very Words which Grief, Madam, has engrav'd in the bottom of my Heart"
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Date: 1739
"How delightful a thing it is to love, when there is no Obstacle to those aimiable Chains with which two Hearts are united together!"
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Date: 1739
"Marriage is a chain shou'd never be impos'd by Force upon a Heart, and if the Gentleman is a Man of Honour, he should never accept a Person, who must be his by Constraint."
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Date: 1739
"[S]he suffers me to believe every thing, and glories in every thing; and at the same Time, my Heart is still cowardly enough, not to break the Chain that binds it, not to arm it self with a generous Disdain against the ungrateful Object it is but too much smitten with!"
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Date: 1714, 1739
Two woman may "with equal Ardor assure [themselves] of the Empire of a [man's] heart
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Date: 1739
"All the Revolutions that inhuman Fortune can expose us to, the Loss of Grandeur, Persecutions, the Poison of Envy, and the Insults of Hatred, have nothing in 'em but what the Resolutions of a Mind where Reason has the least Rule, can easily defy."
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Date: 1739
"Philosophy ... raises [one] above the rest of human Kind, and gives the sovereign Empire to Reason, subjecting the animal Part to its Laws, the gross Appetite of which debases us to Beasts"
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