Date: 1700
"My Heart's his Throne, yet Rebel Passions Jar, / Which Fire my Veins, and thro' my Blood make War."
preview | full record— Hopkins, John (b. 1675)
Date: 1700
"All Hearts you Conquer, as you Conquer mine"
preview | full record— Hopkins, John (b. 1675)
Date: 1704
"But Love, resistless Love my Soul invades; / Discretion this, Affection that perswades."
preview | full record— Tate, Nahum (c. 1652-1715)
Date: w. 1702, 1713
"Fair Ideas in full Glory shine, / Eternal Models of exalted Parts, / The Pride of Minds, and Conquerors of Hearts."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1717
Horror may invade the mind
preview | full record— Dillon, Wentworth, 4th Earl of Roscommon (1637-1685)
Date: w. 1713-1718?, 1989
"If I cant have the pleasure to conquer yr heart / I shall have some at least in complaining."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1755
"Yet you disdain the meaner arts / By women us'd to conquer hearts."
preview | full record— Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)
Date: 1766
"Love laugh'd, and, sure of conquest, wing'd a dart / Unerring, to her undefended heart."
preview | full record— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)
Date: 1792
One can "wage war" on his own heart and "conquer it, or perish"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)