Date: 1725

One may, "tho' ever accounted the most roving and inconstant of his Sex," prefer the Conquest of one Heart to all the others he had made

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1728

"Poll performs her Parts / With such Grace and Arts, / That each Night she conquers Hearts, / Both in Pit and Boxes."

— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)

Date: 1744

""Reason with Inclination why at war? / Why sense of guilt? Why Conscience up in arms?"

— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)

Date: 1748

"There is nothing more certain, that that there are two Kinds of Conviction, one flowing from a sudden and violent breaking-in of Truth, when the Understanding is as it were taken by Storm, and a Man's whole System of Thinking is changed in an Instant: the other a gradual, gentle, and slow steali...

— Anonymous; [Lyttleton]

Date: 1759

"Learn first, a Conquest, o'er yourselves, to gain, / That o'er our Sex, you may victorious reign."

— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)