Date: 1751
"Would it were possible, returned I, (without minding his compliment) to make a conquest of that inexorable heart of his!"
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1751
"'Yes, indeed,' added miss Betsy, "and threatens terrible things to every one, who should dare to dispute the conquest of my heart with him'"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1751
One may make "a conquest of a heart, without knowing it, which not the utmost endeavours of any other could ever subdue"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1751
"During our little walk he entertained me with a thousand encomiums on my person, assuring me I had made an absolute conquest of his heart"
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1751
"A heart so capable of feeling all the force of love, must be a conquest worthy the most ardent pursuits"
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: 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)