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Date: 1703

"Was she old and deform'd, / Her Wit and her Air, / Would conquer more Hearts, / Than the Young and the Fair."

— Egerton [née Fyge; other married name Field], Sarah (1670-1723)

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Date: 1703

"Those Charms are more noble, / The Lovely and Kind / May vanquish the Body, / She conquers the Mind."

— Egerton [née Fyge; other married name Field], Sarah (1670-1723)

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Date: 1709

A Lady wounded in love may "strive to conquer Hearts, / And triumph o'er their Pain"

— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)

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Date: 1709

A form may be shot into the soul

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

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Date: 1733

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

— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)

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Date: 1756

"I ask not Her heart, but would conquer my own"

— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)

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Date: 1760, 1850

An "anxious tender air / Proves o'er her heart the conquest won"

— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)

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Date: 1778

"Still our joys are not complete, / Doubts and fears our minds invading / Till your gentle smiles we meet"

— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.