Date: 1753
"I have thought long of this; and my first Feelings were like yours; a foolish Conscience aw'd me, which soon I conquer'd."
preview | full record— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)
Date: 1754
An imaginary belief may leave the mind and "like an enraged conqueror it vacated not the town till it had put to the sword all its peaceful inhabitants, till it had ravaged and laid waste every joyous thought within her bosom"
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)
Date: 1754
"For my mind is not so conquered, but in this retirement, supported by innocence, I can find such enjoyments as I fear (with the deepest sorrow I express myself) you, O Ferdinand, can never taste again."
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)
Date: 1754
"Think not, mistaken Oliver, that because I have never declared my knowledge of the base malignity of your heart (which I would gladly have hid even from myself) that I have not perceived your vain efforts of conquering my mind and rendering me miserable."
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)
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)
Date: 1754
"The man's discover'd unworthiness, and your own discretion, enabled you to conquer a passion to which you had given way, supposing it unconquerable, because you thought it would cost you pains to contend with it"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1754
"Had Sir Charles been actually married, would his being so, have enabled a woman's reason to triumph over her passion? --If so, passion is surely conquerable"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1754
"She had therefore no reason to endeavour to conquer a passion not ignobly founded; and of which duty, judgment, and conscience, approved"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1754
"You will be greater than Clementina, and that is greater than the greatest, if you can conquer a passion, that over-turned her reason"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)