Date: 1722, 1725
"Reason, at last, has gain'd a Conquest over all that Softness which has hitherto betray'd me to Contempt"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1722, 1739
"His waking Pensiveness, and the warm Bed, brought his Mistress afresh into his Heart; and powerful Love became Conqueror of all the Passions, for no sooner broke the Day, but he resolved to shake off all timorous Apprehensions, and haste to his dear expecting Livia."
preview | full record— Aubin, Penelope (1679?-1731?)
Date: 1723
"The first Transports of his Passion being thus conquered, he began to be resigned"
preview | full record— Aubin, Penelope (1679?-1731?)
Date: 1723
"[Y]ou must use your Reason; conquer that Passion which is now unlawful and injurious to your repose"
preview | full record— Aubin, Penelope (1679?-1731?)
Date: 1723
"When Friends Advice with Lovers Forces joyn, / They conquer Hearts more fortified than mine."
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1723
"Mine [heart] open lies, without the least Defence; / No Guard of Art; but its own Innocence; / Under which Fort it could fierce Storms endure: / But from thy Wit I find no Fort secure."
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1723, 1725
"Beauclair was more gallant; and believing that if ever he desir'd any greater Testimonies of the Conquest he had made of her Heart, than what her Eyes declar'd, now was the Time to obtain them."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1724, 1725
One may think herself "more happy in the Conquest of [a] Heart, than in that of the whole World"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1725
One may, "tho' ever accounted the most roving and inconstant of his Sex," prefer the Conquest of one Heart to all the others he had made
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1724, 1725
"If you were in a Condition (said she merrily) I should be half in hope it was of your Heart I had made so great a Conquest"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)