Date: 1731
"My Soul is torn with a vain War of Passions."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1732
"Shot from her eyes the conquering dart / That found a passage to his heart."
preview | full record— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)
Date: 1732
"Distrest by a confused Medley of thinking, she threw herself carelesly on a Couch, where amid a Chaos of Reflection, she slept, if, we can properly be said to sleep, (when the Mind fir'd by warring Passions, dreams 'em o'er again) the Chamber Door had but negligently fell too, for the unthinking...
preview | full record— Boyd, Elizabeth (fl. 1727-1745)
Date: 1733
"And happy He, that with prevailing Art / Could gain a Conquest o'er her Virgin Heart"
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1733
One may "Conquer all Hearts without designing"
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
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: 1733
"Such is Clemene, when her Mind / Is to invading Grief resign'd."
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1733, 1736
"The ruling Passion conquers reason still."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1734
Love may take the heart with storm and rule there alone
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)