Date: 1726

"[I]n vain I strove to conquer a Passion that had mingled with my Soul, and reigned in every Vein"

— Aubin, Penelope (1679?-1731?)

Date: 1728

"Poll performs her Parts / With such Grace and Arts, / That each Night she conquers Hearts, / Both in Pit and Boxes."

— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)

Date: 1728

"You found an easy Conquest of my Heart."

— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)

Date: 1728

"Olymphia grew calm and resigned, wiped away her Tears, and resolved to conquer the fond Passion that had undone her"

— Aubin, Penelope (1679?-1731?)

Date: 1728

"If Love the Virgin's Heart invade, / How, like a Moth, the simple Maid / Still plays about the Flame!"

— Gay, John (1685-1732)

Date: 1728

Imaginary Conquests may swell the Mind

— Pattison, William (1706-1727)

Date: 1728

"At once thy small, yet glorious Dart / Shall conquer Love's, and Laura's Heart."

— Pattison, William (1706-1727)

Date: 1729, 1737

"She laugh'd at all the puny Arts, / Which conquer other Female Hearts"

— Thurston, Joseph (1704-1732)

Date: 1729, 1737

" 'Why wouldst thou follow with delusive Art, / 'So poor a Conquest as a female heart?"

— Thurston, Joseph (1704-1732)

Date: 1730

"No light the darkness of that mind invades, / Where Chaos rules, enshrin'd in genuine Shades;"

— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)