Date: 1689
"She's fair enough, only she wants the art / To set her Beauties off as they can doe, / And that's the cause she ne'er heard any woo, / Nor ever yet made conquest of a heart."
preview | full record— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)
Date: 1689
And yet there is, there is one prize / Lock'd in an adamantine Breast; / Storm that then, Love, if thou be'st wise, / A Conquest above all the rest, / Her Heart, who binds all Hearts in chains, / Castanna's Heart untouch'd remains."
preview | full record— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)
Date: 1714, 1735
" What cruel Dæmon haunts my tortur'd Mind? / Sure, if 'twere Love, I shou'd th'Invader find;"
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1720
"For wary Clerks learn all these Arts / To gain Esteem, and conquer Hearts."
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
Date: 1735
"'Twere endless to describe the various Darts, / With which the Fair are arm'd to conquer Heart"
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1736
"Weighty cares may "the pensive Mind invade"
preview | full record— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)
Date: 1737
"'If passion once invade the female mind, / '(Tenacious sex!) in vain would mortal art / 'Wrench the warm weapon from the bleeding heart."
preview | full record— Thurston, Joseph (1704-1732)
Date: 1862
"Intestine war no more our passions wage; / E'en giddy factions hear away their rage."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)