Date: 1719-1720, 1725
"I am not vain enough of mine [beauty], to assure my self of making a Conquest of your Heart."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1719-1720, 1725
"No, Madam, reply'd I, 'tis not Violetta has that Power, but she, who unknowing that she did so, caught at first sight the Victory o're my Soul."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1719-1720, 1725
"My Lord, said he, as soon as they were alone, my perfidious Mistress, failing to make a Conquest of your Heart, is still willing to preserve that she had attain'd over mine."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1719-1720, 1725
"Melliora thought she had done a very heroick Action, and sate herself down on the Bed-side, in a pleas'd Contemplation of the Conquest, she believ'd her Virtue had gain'd over her Passion."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1720
A woman's "Victorious Charms" may may a conquest o'er a lover's heart
preview | full record— Brown, Thomas (bap. 1663, d. 1704)
Date: 1720
"For wary Clerks learn all these Arts / To gain Esteem, and conquer Hearts."
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
Date: April 18, 1721
"One Argument is ballanc'd by another, / And Reason Reason meets in doubtful Fight, / And Proofs are countermin'd by equal Proofs. / No more I'll bear this Battel of the Mind, / This inward Anarchy."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1722
"Mankind, from the eldest ages, have felt great disturbance in themselves, from a vehement and constant strife between their reason and their passions; they found themselves distracted by these inward warring principles, of which they were compounded, drawing different ways, and contending for vi...
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1722
"When they followed the dictates for reason, they bore the torment of ungratify'd inordinate appetites; and when they chose to obey their passions, reflection fill'd them with terror and remorse: and in this sense, it is true, that all men are born in a state of war; that is, they felt in themsel...
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1722
" But the immediate disciples of these two great masters were much divided about reconciling the two combatants, reason and passion, and bring this intestine war to an end."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)