Date: 1703
"Was she old and deform'd, / Her Wit and her Air, / Would conquer more Hearts, / Than the Young and the Fair."
preview | full record— Egerton [née Fyge; other married name Field], Sarah (1670-1723)
Date: 1703
"Those Charms are more noble, / The Lovely and Kind / May vanquish the Body, / She conquers the Mind."
preview | full record— Egerton [née Fyge; other married name Field], Sarah (1670-1723)
Date: 1703
"At length my reconcil'd and conquer'd Heart, / When 'twas almost too late own'd thy Desert, / And wishes thou wast still, not that thou never wer't; / Wishes thee still that celebrated Day,/ I lately kept with sympathizing Joy."
preview | full record— Egerton [née Fyge; other married name Field], Sarah (1670-1723)
Date: 1733
"And happy He, that with prevailing Art / Could gain a Conquest o'er her Virgin Heart"
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1733
One may "Conquer all Hearts without designing"
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1733
"Such is Clemene, when her Mind / Is to invading Grief resign'd."
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1734, 1735
"Since you to win my Heart have deign'd, / Quit not the Conquest you have gain'd."
preview | full record— Barber, Mary (c.1685-1755)
Date: 1737
"But oh! what anguish did his soul invade, / When he was told, the lov'd enchanting maid / At Isis holy shrine devoutly bow'd, / A virgin priestess to the goddess vow'd?"
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1740
"Thus lawless conquerors our town restore, / With the sad marks of their inhuman power; / No art, nor time, such ravage can repair; / No superstructure can these ruins bear."
preview | full record— Dixon, Sarah (1671/2-1765)
Date: 1747
"Strange force of Harmony, whose Power controuls, / The warring Passions, and informs our Souls, / Soft soothing Sounds, by whose enchantment blest, / Anger and Grief forsake the tranquil Breast; / While soft Ideas rising in the Mind, / Bids us in Love a gentle Tyrant find, / And to his Sway the ...
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)