Date: 1732

"Shot from her eyes the conquering dart / That found a passage to his heart."

— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)

Date: 1732

"Distrest by a confused Medley of thinking, she threw herself carelesly on a Couch, where amid a Chaos of Reflection, she slept, if, we can properly be said to sleep, (when the Mind fir'd by warring Passions, dreams 'em o'er again) the Chamber Door had but negligently fell too, for the unthinking...

— Boyd, Elizabeth (fl. 1727-1745)

Date: 1733

"It seems to me absolutely impossible, without such a Help, to keep the Mind easy, and prevent its wearing out the Body, as the Sword does the Scabbard; it is no matter what it is, provided it be but a Hobby-Horse, and an Amusement, and stop the Current Reflexion and intense Thinking, which Perso...

— Cheyne, George (1671-1743)

Date: 1733

"And happy He, that with prevailing Art / Could gain a Conquest o'er her Virgin Heart"

— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)

Date: 1733

One may "Conquer all Hearts without designing"

— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)

Date: 1733

"Tho ane Enemie captive I viewed your desert / which darted a conquest on my yielding heart"

— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)

Date: 1733

"Let Vice and guilt act how they please / In souls their conquer'd provinces;"

— Green, Matthew (1696-1737) [pseud. Peter Drake, a Fisherman of Brentford]

Date: 1733

"Virtue's exempt from quartering fears. / Shall then arm'd phancies fiercely drest / Live at discretion in your breast?"

— Green, Matthew (1696-1737) [pseud. Peter Drake, a Fisherman of Brentford]

Date: 1733

"Such is Clemene, when her Mind / Is to invading Grief resign'd."

— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)

Date: 1733, 1736

"The ruling Passion conquers reason still."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)