Date: 1762

The heart may be garrisoned with thoughts of a "wife conqu'ror"

— Author Unknown

Date: 1762

One may see "Tears which would melt a heart even free to view, / How then must mine that's conquered bleed anew"

— Jemmat [née Yeo], Catherine (bap. 1714, d. 1766?)

Date: 1762-3

"[T]he five senses in alliance [may] / To Reason hurl a proud defiance, / And, though oft conquer'd, yet unbroke, / Endeavour to throw off that yoke / Which they a greater slavery hold / Than Jewish bondage was of old"

— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)

Date: 1762-3

"This glorious system form'd for man / To practise when and how he can, / If the five senses in alliance / To Reason hurl a proud defiance, / And, though oft conquer'd, yet unbroken, / Endeavour to throw off that yoke / Which they a greater slavery hold / Than Jewish bondage was of old."

— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)

Date: 1763, 1791

"Fancy precedes [Judgment], and conquers all the mind"

— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)

Date: 1763, 1791

Deliberating Judgment slowly comes behind [Fancy]; / Comes to the field with blunderbuss and gun, / Like heavy Falstaff, when the work is done"

— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)

Date: 1763

"Nor hope the Conquest of that stubborn Heart"

— Hoyland, Francis (1727-1786)

Date: 1763, 1765; 1766

""Soon will the reign of Hope and Fear be o'er, / And warring passions militate no more."

— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)

Date: 1766

"Love laugh'd, and, sure of conquest, wing'd a dart / Unerring, to her undefended heart."

— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)

Date: 1768

A mirror is "mistress of the art, / Which conquers and secures a heart"

— Wilkie, William (1721-1772)