Date: 1719-1720, 1725
"Melliora thought she had done a very heroick Action, and sate herself down on the Bed-side, in a pleas'd Contemplation of the Conquest, she believ'd her Virtue had gain'd over her Passion."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1723
"Can Kings the Empire of the Soul invade?"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1723
"Neither cou'd our Spy, considering his Education in the Mahometan Religion, take a properer Method, in my Opinion, to disengage himself from the Legends of the Nursery, and Fables of the Schools, (as a great man calls our Infant Idea's of things) than to follow the Counsel of his beloved des Car...
preview | full record— Marana, Giovanni Paolo (1642-1693); Anonymous [William Bradshaw (fl. 1700) or Robert Midgley (1655?-1723)?]
Date: 1723, 1732
"From whence we may learn that to perform a meritorious Action, it is not sufficient barely to conquer a Passion, unless it likewise be done from a laudable Principle, and consequently how necessary that Clause was in the Definition of Virtue, that our Endeavours were to proceed from a ratio...
preview | full record— Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733)
Date: 1728
"Poll performs her Parts / With such Grace and Arts, / That each Night she conquers Hearts, / Both in Pit and Boxes."
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
Date: 1728
"You found an easy Conquest of my Heart."
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
Date: 1744
Beauty and the charms of a woman's conversation can make a conquest of a lover's heart far more complete than any prospect of interest could have done
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1744
"[Y]our eyes, at first sight, subdued my heart; but your virtue has since made a conquest of my soul"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1744
"[H]eaven will sure excuse the error of an inclination which is born with us, and which not all our reason is of force to conquer"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)