Date: 1748

"Such callous Hearts to no Impression yield, / All-guarded with Corruption's seven-fold Shield;"

— Warton, Thomas, the elder (1688-1745)

Date: 1748

"the Persian Bands / In fearful Wonder ask; What God unseen / Such Pow'r bestow'd, and steel'd a Woman's Heart"

— Warton, Thomas, the elder (1688-1745)

Date: 1748

"These be now my Cares, / To leave the Muse for Virtue [...] but chief my Soul to steel / With adamantine Honour"

— Warton, Thomas, the elder (1688-1745)

Date: 1751

One may be "tost about at the pleasure of every wind" and"hurried thro' the ocean of life, just as each each predominant passion direction

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

Date: 1751

Beauty may "take the senses as it were by surprise; but the impression soon wears off, and the captivated heart regains its former liberty"

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

Date: 1751

"While the blood runs high, and desire is rampant for possession, prudence is of little force; but when the one begins to flag, the other resumes its empire over the mind, and never rests till it finds means to retrieve what it has lost"

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

Date: 1751

"Oh had I known it sooner, engaged as I then was to one, who well deserved my love, could I have guessed miss Betsy Thoughtless was the contriver of that tender fraud, I know not what revolution might have happened in my heart! the empire you had there, was never totally extirpated, and kindness ...

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

Date: 1751

One may swell "with all the pride of flattered vanity" on a "new imaginary conquest over the heart" of an accomplished man

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

Date: 1751

"'Yes, indeed,' added miss Betsy, "and threatens terrible things to every one, who should dare to dispute the conquest of my heart with him'"

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

Date: 1751

One may make "a conquest of a heart, without knowing it, which not the utmost endeavours of any other could ever subdue"

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