Date: 1713

"[F]air Ideas in full Glory shine, / Eternal Models of exalted Parts, / The Pride of Minds, and Conquerors of Hearts."

— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)

Date: 1702-1713

"[F]air Ideas shine / Eternall modells of unbounded parts / The pride of minds & conquerours of hearts."

— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)

Date: 1761

One may "play to the eye with a mere monkey's art" and leave "to sense the conquest of the heart"

— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)

Date: 1713-1718?

"If I cant have the pleasure to conquer yr heart / I shall have some at least in complaining."

— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)

Date: 1685

"Victorious Reason" may "afford / A Nobler Conquest then the Sword"

— Philips, John (1676-1709)

Date: 1687

Siege and storming of the heart

— Cutts, John, Baron Cutts of Gowran (1660/1-1707)

Date: 1687

Cupids in air y forms do move and conspire "conquering ev'ry Heart, or setting it on Fire"

— Cutts, John, Baron Cutts of Gowran (1660/1-1707)

Date: 1740

"A Heart by Kindness only gain'd, / Will a dear Conquest prove"

— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)

Date: 1749

Nature "corresponding with her sweet assailant," may invade "in the heart of [a woman's] capital," and carry it by storm, while she lays "at the mercy of the proud conqueror, who had made his entry triumphantly, and completely"

— Cleland, John (bap. 1710, d. 1789)

Date: 1759

"He then communicated the various precepts given from time to time for the conquest of passion, and displayed the happiness of those who had obtained the important victory, after which man is no longer the slave of fear, nor the fool of hope; is no more emaciated by envy, inflamed by anger, emasc...

— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)