Date: 1706, 1715 [1706-1721]
"My spirit is tossed with a thousand tormenting things, and my thoughts destroy one another the same moment they are conceived, to make way for more; and so long as my body suffers by the impressions of my mind, how shall I be able to hold paper, or a reed to write."
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Date: 1709
"[W]ould not one believe her Charms are sufficient to conquer a thousand Hearts?"
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1709
"That fatal Night the Duke felt hostile Fires in his Breast, Love was entred with all his dreadful Artillery; he took possession in a moment of the Avenues that lead to the Heart! neither did the resistance he found there serve for any thing but to make his Conquest more illustrious."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1710
Charms may be sufficient of themselves to gain a Conquest over any Heart that is not already ingaged
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1710
A bishop may indulge "amorous Vein" and make "as many Conquests over the Bodies of the fair Sex, as of their Souls"
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1712, 1715, 1719
"But why, oh! why have you given me an Interior, bearing so great a Resemblance to your own divine Purities, and not given me the Power to act accordingly; but have fix'd me in such a State, that my Actions must combat my Conscience, and my Conscience oppose my Reason, and all make a civil War in...
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)