"She was beginning to make some Reflections on the Meanness of suffering Passions of any kind to get the Mastery of Reason, when a sudden and tumultuous Noise rouzed her from this Resvery, and the Lovers from the Slumber they were just fallen into."
Adventures of Eovaai
4 entries in ESTC (1736, 1741). Retitled in second edition as <u>The Unfortunate Princess: or the Life and Surprizing Adventures of the Princess of Ijaveo</u>.<br>
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See <u>Adventures of Eovaai. Princess of Ijaveo. A Pre-Adamitical History. Interspersed with a great Number of remarkable Occurrences, which happened, and may again happen, to several Empires, Kingdoms, Republicks, and particular Great Men. With some Account of the Religion, Laws, Customs, and Policies of those Times. Written originally in the Language of Nature, (of later Years but little understood.) First translated into Chinese, at the command of the Emperor, by a Cabal of Seventy Philosophers; and now retranslated into English, by the Son of a Mandarin, residing in London.</u> (London: Printed for S. Baker, 1736). &lt<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T57423">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW114435542&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from Women Writers Online. &lt;<a href="http://textbase.wwp.brown.edu/WWO/search?browse-all=yes;brand=wwo#!/view/haywood.eovaai.xml">Link to WWO</a>&gt;