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)
Date: 1790
"With a soldier's care / He plan'd the conquest of Ophelia's heart/ and won it"
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1790
One may have two souls "which, like two mighty Kings, / 'Ever contending for the sov'reignty, / 'Stir up sedition and revolt within"
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1790
"[M]y conquer'd heart / 'Has nothing noble or aspiring in it"
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1792
"Ah me! the passion that my soul misled / Was check'd, not conquer'd; buried, but not dead."
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1792
"O, the fell conflict, the intestine strife, / This clash of good and evil, death and life! / What, what are all the wars of sea and wind, / Or wreck of matter, to This War of Mind?"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1793
" When painful truths invade the mind, / Ev'n wisdom wishes to be blind, / And hates th' officious ray."
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)