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Date: 1747
"Why can I not this fatal Flame remove? / Or why, O why is it a Crime to love? / By Turns my Reason and my Passion sway, / As Honour triumphs, and as Love betray; / My tortur'd Breast conflicting Passions tear, / And Love and Virtue wage unequal War."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1747
"AH cease to grieve, fond fluttering Heart, / Thy charming Conqueror returns; / Hence every Doubt each Fear depart, / The Youth with equal Passion burns."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1751
"I still flatter'd myself, that I should be able to maintain the resolution I had taken, during my short disgrace, of conquering my coquettish inclinations: but an accidental sight of Dumont, (who bow'd to me as I pass'd, giving me, at the same time, a passionate look) immediately roused my sleep...
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1751
Beauty may "take the senses as it were by surprise; but the impression soon wears off, and the captivated heart regains its former liberty"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
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)
