Date: 1722, 1725

"Reason, at last, has gain'd a Conquest over all that Softness which has hitherto betray'd me to Contempt"

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

Date: 1723

"When Friends Advice with Lovers Forces joyn, / They conquer Hearts more fortified than mine."

— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)

Date: 1723

"Mine [heart] open lies, without the least Defence; / No Guard of Art; but its own Innocence; / Under which Fort it could fierce Storms endure: / But from thy Wit I find no Fort secure."

— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)

Date: 1723, 1725

"Beauclair was more gallant; and believing that if ever he desir'd any greater Testimonies of the Conquest he had made of her Heart, than what her Eyes declar'd, now was the Time to obtain them."

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

Date: 1724, 1725

One may think herself "more happy in the Conquest of [a] Heart, than in that of the whole World"

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

Date: 1724

Shafts more subtile, may be darted from the Eye and "Thro' softer Hearts with silent Conquest fly"

— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)

Date: 1725

One may, "tho' ever accounted the most roving and inconstant of his Sex," prefer the Conquest of one Heart to all the others he had made

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

Date: 1724, 1725

"If you were in a Condition (said she merrily) I should be half in hope it was of your Heart I had made so great a Conquest"

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

Date: 1726

One may find "his own Affections ... impossible to conquer, or bring into any bounds of Reason."

— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)

Date: January 29, 1729

"Still Favourites of these conquering Eyes, / 'gainst whom no Heart's defended."

— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)