Date: 1747
"What Place can banish Love / From the subjected Mind."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1747, 1811
"'Yes, if his soul to reason's rule resign'd, / 'And heaven's own views fair-opening on his mind,/ 'Caught from bright nature's flame the living ray, / 'Through passion's cloud pour'd in resistless day; / 'And taught mankind in reas'ning Pride's despite, / 'That God is wise, and all that is righ...
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1746; December 17, 1747 [actually January, 1748]
"To me thy better gifts impart, / Each moral beauty of the heart / By studious thought refin’d: / For Wealth, the smiles of glad Content, / For Pow’r, it samplest, best extent, / An empire o’er my mind."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1747
Jesus can vindicate his "right Divine" and "Conquer this rebellious heart"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1747-8
"Riches were, are, and always will be, his predominant passion."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"My predominant passion is Girl, not Gold; nor value I This, but as it helps me to That, and gives me independence."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"But let me touch upon thy predominant passion, Revenge; for Love [What can be the love of a rake?] is but second to that, as I have often told thee, tho' it has set thee into raving at me."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"But by the fierceness of mine, as my trembling hands seized hers, I soon made fear her predominant passion."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"How difficult does every man find it, as well as me, to forego a predominant passion? I have three passions that sway me by turns; all imperial ones. Love, Revenge, Ambition, or a desire of conquest."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"See that your own predominant passions, whatever they be, hurry you not into as much wickedness, as mine do me."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)