Date: 1724, 1725

"The old Marquis, whose lawless and ungoverned Passion had occasion'd this Misfortune, still remained in a fixed Posture."

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1724, 1725

One may think herself "more happy in the Conquest of [a] Heart, than in that of the whole World"

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1725

"Love's an heroick Passion, which can find No room in any base degen'rate Mind: It kindles all the Soul with Honour's Fire, To make the Lover worthy his Desire."

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1725

One may, "tho' ever accounted the most roving and inconstant of his Sex," prefer the Conquest of one Heart to all the others he had made

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1724, 1725

"If you were in a Condition (said she merrily) I should be half in hope it was of your Heart I had made so great a Conquest"

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1724, 1725

"[H]is Image was too deeply impress'd in her Mind, ever to banish it thence, tho' effac'd and blotted by the Memory of his Crimes"

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1724, 1725

"As to the Beauties of her Person, tho' few of the most celebrated ones could boast of more, yet they were so far exceeded by those of the interior Part, that I shall only say, the Brightness of her Mind shone in her Eyes, enliven'd all her Air"

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1724, 1725

"But alas! what Courage, what Discretion, what cool Reserve, what Sanctity of Wishes can defend the Heart, when once the God of Love has found an Entrance there!"

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1724, 1725

"[Love] that Tyrant Passion lords it o'er the Mind, fills every Faculty, and leaves no room for any other Thought--drives Consideration far away--overturns Reflection-- and permits no Image but itself to dwell in Fancy's Region"

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1724, 1725

"The soft and tender Soul of Emanuella, was a fit Temple for the enslaving Deity to work his utmost Wonders in"

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)