Date: 1737

"Alas! by diff'rent Passions I'm oppress'd! / Fierce Love and Hate contend within my Breast."

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)

Date: 1737

"At Eyes alone our Beaus direct their art, / Nor know the nobler Conquest of the Heart."

— Thurston, Joseph (1704-1732)

Date: 1737

"Hence Wrath and Rage their ready Minds invade, / And Want could ev'ry Wickedness perswade."

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)

Date: 1737

"'If passion once invade the female mind, / '(Tenacious sex!) in vain would mortal art / 'Wrench the warm weapon from the bleeding heart."

— Thurston, Joseph (1704-1732)

Date: 1737 (also 1738, 1743, reprinted 1754)

"But, if dull fogs invade the head, / That mem'ry minds not what is read."

— Green, Matthew (1696-1737)

Date: 1737

"But oh! what anguish did his soul invade, / When he was told, the lov'd enchanting maid / At Isis holy shrine devoutly bow'd, / A virgin priestess to the goddess vow'd?"

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

Date: 1740

"Thus lawless conquerors our town restore, / With the sad marks of their inhuman power; / No art, nor time, such ravage can repair; / No superstructure can these ruins bear."

— Dixon, Sarah (1671/2-1765)

Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741

"I could not conquer my Love; so I conquer'd a Pride."

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741

One may try in vainto conquer a Passion for someone

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741

"I could not conquer my Passion for you, I corrected myself, and resolved, since you would not be mine upon my Terms, you should upon your own"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)