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: 1766
"Each of these words, implies, resistance; but, that of 'conquer', refers to victory over enemies; and is, generally, used in the literal sense: that of 'subdue', is more applicable to our passions; being, oftener, used in a figurative; and means, a bringing under subjection: that of 'overcome', ...
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)
Date: 1768
A mirror is "mistress of the art, / Which conquers and secures a heart"
preview | full record— Wilkie, William (1721-1772)
Date: 1768
"I was never able to conquer any one single bad sensation in my heart so decisively, as by beating up as fast as I could for some kindly and gentle sensation, to fight it upon its own ground."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: September 30, 1769?
"To nature and the passions dead, / A brothel is his house and bed; / To fan the flame of warm desire, / And after wanton in the fire, / He thinks a labour; and his parts / Were not designed to conquer hearts."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1761, 1770
"Why should Hibernia let her daughters roam / Why not confin'd to conquer hearts at home?"
preview | full record— Thompson, Edward (1738-1786)
Date: 1770
Passions may invade the mind so that "the conscious body soon / In sympathetic languishment declines"
preview | full record— Armstrong, John (1708/9-1779)
Date: 1770
"When Reason invades the rights of Common Sense, and presumes to arraign that authority by which she herself acts, nonsense and confusion must of necessity ensue; science will soon come to have neither head nor tail, beginning nor end; philosophy will grow contemptible; and its adherents, far fro...
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1771
"There, 'mid her faithful vassal train, / With hearts to conquer, or to die, / Eliza sat; her beauteous mein / Eclips'd by Sorrow's tearful eye."
preview | full record— Colvill, Robert (d. 1788)
Date: 1773
"Not all their cruelty (the fair rejoin'd) / Shall ever boast a conquest o'er my mind"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)