Date: 1753
"Nature, that form'd you loveliest, doubly kind, / To like perfection, rais'd your conquering mind"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1753
"Say, coward learning! long, too long, misled! / If, yet, thou dar'st erect thy dizzy head! / And art not, yet, heart-conquer'd quite, / By power and custom join'd; too, too unequal fight!"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1754
Two charming maids may be "By nature form'd to conquer hearts"
preview | full record— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
Date: 1755
"Yet you disdain the meaner arts / By women us'd to conquer hearts."
preview | full record— Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)
Date: 1756
"I ask not Her heart, but would conquer my own"
preview | full record— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)
Date: 1757-9
Peace and war alternately succeed in the lover
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]
Date: 1759
"Learn first, a Conquest, o'er yourselves, to gain, / That o'er our Sex, you may victorious reign."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Date: 1760, 1803
"To farther conquests still my soul aspires, / And all my bosom glows with martial fires"
preview | full record— Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)
Date: 1760, 1850
One may hope "to find / An easy conquest o'er a woman's mind"
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)