Date: 1733
"Let Vice and guilt act how they please / In souls their conquer'd provinces;"
preview | full record— Green, Matthew (1696-1737) [pseud. Peter Drake, a Fisherman of Brentford]
Date: 1733
"Virtue's exempt from quartering fears. / Shall then arm'd phancies fiercely drest / Live at discretion in your breast?"
preview | full record— Green, Matthew (1696-1737) [pseud. Peter Drake, a Fisherman of Brentford]
Date: 1735
"'Twere endless to describe the various Darts, / With which the Fair are arm'd to conquer Heart"
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1735-6
"While his the bloodless conquest of the heart, / Shouts without groan, and triumph without war"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1736
"Weighty cares may "the pensive Mind invade"
preview | full record— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)
Date: 1737
"'If passion once invade the female mind, / '(Tenacious sex!) in vain would mortal art / 'Wrench the warm weapon from the bleeding heart."
preview | full record— Thurston, Joseph (1704-1732)
Date: 1742
God may "conquer my rebellious will, / And bid my murmuring heart 'Be Still.'"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1743
"Give, the Soul's Conquest, in the Plan's Extent"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1743
"But Passion's Phalanx, no calm Influence breaks; / Truth, till strong-mounted, ev'ry Danger shakes."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1755
"Yet you disdain the meaner arts / By women us'd to conquer hearts."
preview | full record— Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)