Date: 1747-8
"In the other, the poet says not truth; for Conscience is the Conqueror of Souls: At least it is the Conqueror of mine: And who ever thought it a narrow one?"
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One may have a soul like a shield that "take in all" of Fortune's quiver
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Imaginations may be "un-reined"
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Passion may blind the judgment and help on meditated delusion
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"And is it not philosophy carried to the highest pitch, for a man to conquer such tumults of soul as I am sometimes agitated by, and, in the very height of the storm, to be able to quaver out an horse-laugh?"
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Date: 1747-8
Lovelace has not made "assiduity and obsequiousness, and a conquest of his unruly passions, any part of his study"
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Lovelace has found, "[A] first passion thoroughly subdued, made the conqueror of it a rover; the conqueress a tyrant"
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"There is no triumph in force! No conquest over the will! --No prevailing, by gentle degrees, over the gentle passions!"
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Clarissa gives an instance "of a passion conquered, when there were so many inducements to give way to it"
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"Having lost her, my whole soul is a blank."
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