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Date: 1744, 1753
"He ordered his Coach to drive into Fleetstreet, that he might be out of the Neighbourhood, and hearing of the Cause of his Torment; he took a Lodging in that Street; and the Moment he was at liberty to reflect on what had passed, found it was much harder to conquer a Passion than to raise...
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1744, 1753
"But alas! better had it been for us both, had she for ever shut herself from the World, and spent her time in conquering, instead of endeavouring to gratify and indulge her Passion."
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1744, 1753
"I can now sit in my Bed with a calm Resignation, to which my conquered Mind has been long a Stranger."
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1744, 1753
"At last it came into my head to try if he was generous enough to conquer his own Passion, rather than be the Cause of my being unhappy."
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1744, 1753
"CAMILLA heard him out, and then told him, she would do any thing in her power to serve him; but advised him, if possible, to try to conquer his Passion."
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1747-8
"O Jack! what a difficulty must a man be allowed to have, to conquer a predominant passion, be it what it will, when the gratifying of it is in his power, however wrong he knows it to be to resolve to gratify it!"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"Souls know no conquerors."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
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?"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
One may have a soul like a shield that "take in all" of Fortune's quiver
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"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?"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
