Date: 1742
God may "conquer my rebellious will, / And bid my murmuring heart 'Be Still.'"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1743
"Give, the Soul's Conquest, in the Plan's Extent"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1743
"But Passion's Phalanx, no calm Influence breaks; / Truth, till strong-mounted, ev'ry Danger shakes."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1756
"I ask not Her heart, but would conquer my own"
preview | full record— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)
Date: 1763
"Nor hope the Conquest of that stubborn Heart"
preview | full record— Hoyland, Francis (1727-1786)
Date: 1784, 1787
The headlong rout's misguided rage may wage equal combat with the firm phalanx (of reasoning calms placid sense)
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1784, 1787
"His mind to gentler thoughts he tries to move, / and conquer strong renown by stronger love"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1785
"'Twixt shame and passion floats the struggling mind, / To Virtue now, and now to vice inclin'd, / This frowns refusal, that persuades to yield, / Till Reason falls, and Passion takes the field."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1786, 1787, 1788; 1789
"She can conquer a heart--that she wants sense to keep."
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1786, 1787, 1788; 1789
"For spells may be said to exist in that tone, / Whose graces can conquer all hearts--but her own."
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)