Date: 1773
"By accustoming yourself thus to conquer and disappoint your anger, you will, by degrees, find it grow weak and manageable, so as to leave your reason at liberty."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1773
"Another method of conquering this enemy [the passions], is to abstract our minds from that attention to trifling circumstances, which usually creates this uneasiness."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1773
"Virtue that breast without a conflict gained, / And easy, like a native monarch, reigned."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1774
"When they come to be a little better acquainted with themselves, and with their own species, they discover that plain right reason is, nine times in ten, the fettered and shackled attendant of the triumph of the heart and the passions; and, consequently, they address themselves nine times in ten...
preview | full record— Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
Date: 1774
"I will show your letter to Duval, by way of justification for not answering his challenge; and I think he must allow the validity of it; for a frozen brain is as unfit to answer a challenge in poetry, as a blunt sword is for a single combat."
preview | full record— Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
Date: 1777
"But it is their nature never to observe a neutrality; they are either rebels or auxiliaries, and an enemy subdued is an ally obtained."
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: 1778
"Still our joys are not complete, / Doubts and fears our minds invading / Till your gentle smiles we meet"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1778, 1779
"I was totally spiritless and dejected; the idea of the approaching meeting,--and oh Sir, the idea of the approaching parting,--gave a heaviness to my heart, that I could neither conquer nor repress."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"Yet, Oh! how violent was the struggle which tore my conflicting soul, ere I could persuade myself to profit by the benevolence which you were so evidently disposed to exert in my favour!"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1778, 1779
"The very idea was a dagger to my heart!"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)