Date: 1755
"Like Death impartial, [Love] presents his Dart, / And sure to conquer, aims at ev'ry Heart"
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1755
"Yet you disdain the meaner arts / By women us'd to conquer hearts."
preview | full record— Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)
Date: 1756
"I ask not Her heart, but would conquer my own"
preview | full record— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)
Date: 1757-9
Peace and war alternately succeed in the lover
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]
Date: 1758
"COME, Epictetus, arm my breast / With thy impenetrable steel, / No more the wounds of grief to feel, / Nor mourn, by others' woes deprest."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1758
Here lurks DISTEMPER's horrid train / And there the PASSIONS lift their flaming brands; / These with fell rage my helpless body tear, / While those, with daring hands, / Against th' immortal soul their impious weapons rear."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1759
"Learn first, a Conquest, o'er yourselves, to gain, / That o'er our Sex, you may victorious reign."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Date: 1760, 1803
"To farther conquests still my soul aspires, / And all my bosom glows with martial fires"
preview | full record— Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)
Date: 1760, 1850
One may hope "to find / An easy conquest o'er a woman's mind"
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: 1760, 1850
An "anxious tender air / Proves o'er her heart the conquest won"
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)