Date: 1751
"Conquer your passion, if you are able"
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1751
"Your wit, your youth, and beauty, have made an absolute conquest of my heart."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1751
"If a passion can be conquered, it is a sacrifice a good child owes to indulgent parents"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1752
Thoughts may war with one another
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1752
Affections struggle for superiority in the mind
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1752
"Upon the whole, however, she past a miserable and sleepless Night, her gentle Mind torn and distracted with various and contending Passions, distressed with Doubts, and wandring in a kind of Twilight, which presented her only Objects of different Degrees of Horrour, and where black Despair close...
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1752
Many "kind Words" and "many kind Looks" may make an entire Conquest of the Heart
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1753
One may make a new conquest and gain "a heart all flaming and adoration"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1754
"Can I regain him, if I conquer that not ignoble vehemence of a great mind?"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1754
One's judgment may be at war with her passion
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)