Date: Published serially, 1765-1770
"O, my Fanny, he cried, my most noble, my adorable Creature! what a Combat have you fought, what a Conquest have you gained, of Grace over Nature, of Virtue against Passion!"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1768
"I was never able to conquer any one single bad sensation in my heart so decisively, as by beating up as fast as I could for some kindly and gentle sensation, to fight it upon its own ground."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1770
"I acknowlege myself coxcomb enough to have been pleased with the conquest of a heart on which I set not the least value"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1776
"If you cannot like my brother, tell him so, and perhaps the wound which his self-love must receive from your denial, may rouse him to attempt the conquest of an hopeless passion."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"I acknowledge the unreasonableness of my pursuit, but when had reason power to conquer love?"
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"But that if my promising never to enter into those engagements, with any other person, which I declined with him, could make him happy, he might depend upon my word; provided he wou'd in return, give up the thoughts of abandoning his country, family and friends, on my account, but endeavour to c...
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"Though I wou'd by no means have advised your pursuing Lady Juliana to her retreat, I congratulate you on the conclusion of your romance; for surely my friend will now exert himself to conquer a passion, which he must own it wou'd be the height of folly to indulge any further."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"Though I wou'd by no means have advised your pursuing Lady Juliana to her retreat, I congratulate you on the conclusion of your romance; for surely my friend will now exert himself to conquer a passion, which he must own it wou'd be the height of folly to indulge any further."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"My mind was totally occupied on the peculiar unhappiness of yours, in not being able to conquer a passion, which you acknowledge to be hopeless."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)