Date: 1753
One may make a new conquest and gain "a heart all flaming and adoration"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1753
He had before this time, been smit with the ambition of making a conquest of the young lady's heart
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1753
A man may cunningly cater for the gratification of a woman's ruling appetite and gain upon her heart making with rapidity conquest over the affections
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1753
Extraordinary accomplishments may make a conquest of a woman's heart
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1753
The conquest of a certain heart may cost a thousand times more labour and address than all previous victories
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1754
An imaginary belief may leave the mind and "like an enraged conqueror it vacated not the town till it had put to the sword all its peaceful inhabitants, till it had ravaged and laid waste every joyous thought within her bosom"
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)
Date: 1754
"For my mind is not so conquered, but in this retirement, supported by innocence, I can find such enjoyments as I fear (with the deepest sorrow I express myself) you, O Ferdinand, can never taste again."
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)
Date: 1754
"Think not, mistaken Oliver, that because I have never declared my knowledge of the base malignity of your heart (which I would gladly have hid even from myself) that I have not perceived your vain efforts of conquering my mind and rendering me miserable."
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)
Date: 1754
"Can I regain him, if I conquer that not ignoble vehemence of a great mind?"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1754
One's judgment may be at war with her passion
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)