Date: 1753

He had before this time, been smit with the ambition of making a conquest of the young lady's heart

— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)

Date: 1753

A man may cunningly cater for the gratification of a woman's ruling appetite and gain upon her heart making with rapidity conquest over the affections

— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)

Date: 1753

Extraordinary accomplishments may make a conquest of a woman's heart

— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)

Date: 1753

The conquest of a certain heart may cost a thousand times more labour and address than all previous victories

— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)

Date: 1754

"Can I regain him, if I conquer that not ignoble vehemence of a great mind?"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Date: 1754

One's judgment may be at war with her passion

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Date: 1754

"The man's discover'd unworthiness, and your own discretion, enabled you to conquer a passion to which you had given way, supposing it unconquerable, because you thought it would cost you pains to contend with it"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Date: 1754

"Had Sir Charles been actually married, would his being so, have enabled a woman's reason to triumph over her passion? --If so, passion is surely conquerable"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Date: 1754

"She had therefore no reason to endeavour to conquer a passion not ignobly founded; and of which duty, judgment, and conscience, approved"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Date: 1754

"You will be greater than Clementina, and that is greater than the greatest, if you can conquer a passion, that over-turned her reason"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)