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Date: 1755
"Yet you disdain the meaner arts / By women us'd to conquer hearts."
preview | full record— Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)
Date: 1766
"Love laugh'd, and, sure of conquest, wing'd a dart / Unerring, to her undefended heart."
preview | full record— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)
Date: 1792
One can "wage war" on his own heart and "conquer it, or perish"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1792
"O, the fell conflict, the intestine strife, / This clash of good and evil, death and life! / What, what are all the wars of sea and wind, / Or wreck of matter, to This War of Mind?"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
