Date: 1684
One may " Beget more Sighs then if with Arts / He should design to conquer Hearts"
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1684
One may "conquer a Heart with a Look or a Smile"
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1684
"[T]ake this Life, whose chiefest part / I gave you with the Conquest of my Heart"
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1684
One may be born by Love's wing "from his Conquer'd broken Hearts, / To the next Fair and Yeilding She"
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1689
"She's fair enough, only she wants the art / To set her Beauties off as they can doe, / And that's the cause she ne'er heard any woo, / Nor ever yet made conquest of a heart."
preview | full record— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)
Date: 1689
And yet there is, there is one prize / Lock'd in an adamantine Breast; / Storm that then, Love, if thou be'st wise, / A Conquest above all the rest, / Her Heart, who binds all Hearts in chains, / Castanna's Heart untouch'd remains."
preview | full record— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)
Date: 1703
"Was she old and deform'd, / Her Wit and her Air, / Would conquer more Hearts, / Than the Young and the Fair."
preview | full record— Egerton [née Fyge; other married name Field], Sarah (1670-1723)
Date: 1703
"Those Charms are more noble, / The Lovely and Kind / May vanquish the Body, / She conquers the Mind."
preview | full record— Egerton [née Fyge; other married name Field], Sarah (1670-1723)
Date: 1703
"At length my reconcil'd and conquer'd Heart, / When 'twas almost too late own'd thy Desert, / And wishes thou wast still, not that thou never wer't; / Wishes thee still that celebrated Day,/ I lately kept with sympathizing Joy."
preview | full record— Egerton [née Fyge; other married name Field], Sarah (1670-1723)
Date: 1714, 1735
" What cruel Dæmon haunts my tortur'd Mind? / Sure, if 'twere Love, I shou'd th'Invader find;"
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)