Date: 1762
"Combattu sans cesse par mes sentiments naturels qui parloient pour l’intérêt commun, & par ma raison qui rapportoit tout à moi, j’aurois flotté toute ma vie dans cette continuelle alternative, faisant le mal, aimant le bien, & toujours contraire à moi-même, si de nouvelles lumières n’eussent écl...
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where two armies are ready every moment to encounter; not a single vice but has a more powerful opponent; and not one virtue but may be overborne by a combination of vices."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"Reason guides the bands of either host, nor can it subdue one passion but by the assistance of another."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1763, 1791
"Fancy precedes [Judgment], and conquers all the mind"
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1763, 1791
Deliberating Judgment slowly comes behind [Fancy]; / Comes to the field with blunderbuss and gun, / Like heavy Falstaff, when the work is done"
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1763
"Nor hope the Conquest of that stubborn Heart"
preview | full record— Hoyland, Francis (1727-1786)
Date: 1763, 1765; 1766
""Soon will the reign of Hope and Fear be o'er, / And warring passions militate no more."
preview | full record— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)
Date: 1763
"That he would himself assist her to conquer an inclination which is incompatible with the views which the most indulgent of parents entertains for her happiness?"
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1763
"The trial was too great for the softness of a heart like mine; I had almost conquered my own passion, when I became a victim to his."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1763
"How painful the conquest over the sweetest affections of the human heart! "
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)