Date: 1744

"[W]e are here idle at present, but shall not long be so; and you will have occasions enough to prove your courage, and gratify that love of arms which, my brother informs me, is the predominant passion of your soul."

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

Date: 1744

Beauty and the charms of a woman's conversation can make a conquest of a lover's heart far more complete than any prospect of interest could have done

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

Date: 1744

"[Y]our eyes, at first sight, subdued my heart; but your virtue has since made a conquest of my soul"

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

Date: 1744

"[H]eaven will sure excuse the error of an inclination which is born with us, and which not all our reason is of force to conquer"

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

Date: 1744

"[T]he charming image of a city's brightest ornament" may be engraven on the heart by "the god of love ... in characters too indelible ever to be erased"

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

Date: 1744

"Burn this paper, I conjure you, the moment you have read it; but lay the contents of it up in your heart never to be forgotten."

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

Date: 1744

"A mere existence or being is an indifferent thing, ('tis a Rasa Tabula) that may be coloured over with sin or holiness: and accordingly it receives its value from these; as a picture is esteemed not from the materials upon which it is drawn, but from the draught itself."

— South, Robert (1634-1716)

Date: 1744

"Holiness elevates the worth of the being in which it is, and is of more value than the being itself. As in scarlet, the bare dye is of greater value than the cloath."

— South, Robert (1634-1716)

Date: 1744, 1756

"Our rebel hearts" disown Love's sway "While tyrant lust usurps the throne"

— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)

Date: 1744, 1756

The soul to passion may yield her throne and see "with organs not her own"

— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)