Date: 1755

"Like Death impartial, [Love] presents his Dart, / And sure to conquer, aims at ev'ry Heart"

— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)

Date: 1758

"COME, Epictetus, arm my breast / With thy impenetrable steel, / No more the wounds of grief to feel, / Nor mourn, by others' woes deprest."

— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)

Date: 1758

Here lurks DISTEMPER's horrid train / And there the PASSIONS lift their flaming brands; / These with fell rage my helpless body tear, / While those, with daring hands, / Against th' immortal soul their impious weapons rear."

— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)

Date: 1759

"It is difficult to conquer the Passions, but it is impossible to satisfy them"

— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)

Date: 1759

"[Y]et such was the Strength of his Passions, that he could not immediately conquer his Love"

— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)

Date: 1762

"I learnt, that when these people were first rescued out of their misery, their healths were much impaired, and their tempers more so: to restore the first, all medicinal care was taken, and air and exercise assisted greatly in their recovery; but to cure the malady of the mind, and conquer that ...

— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)

Date: 1762

"The constant sense of my guilt, the continual regret at having by my own ill conduct forfeited the happiness, which every action of Lord Peyton's proved that his wife might reasonably expect, fixed a degree of melancholy on my mind, which no time has been able to conquer."

— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)

Date: 1762

"Unfortunately Miss Melvyn's charms made a conquest of this gentleman, in whom age had not gained a victory over passion."

— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)

Date: 1762

"He reverenced and respected her like a divinity, but hoped that prudence might enable him to conquer his passion."

— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)

Date: 1762

"Her sensibility was never so strongly awakened; all her endeavours to restrain it were no longer of force, her heart returned his passion, and would have conquered every thing but her justice and her honour."

— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)