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
"His good sense, however, at last convinced him, that as no solid happiness could be expected with a woman of miss Betsy's temper, he ought to conquer his passion for her."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1751
"[T]hat I have concealed my sentiments with so much care, you must impute to my fixed resolution of conquering a passion I could never hope to indulge with innocence"
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1751
"[I]f you do not desire to have me miserable, conquer this fatal passion, and do not interrupt my endeavours to restore myself to that tranquillity which you have deprived me of"
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
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: 1752
Thoughts may war with one another
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
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: 1759
"It is difficult to conquer the Passions, but it is impossible to satisfy them"
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1759
"[Y]et such was the Strength of his Passions, that he could not immediately conquer his Love"
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)