Date: 1751

"During our little walk he entertained me with a thousand encomiums on my person, assuring me I had made an absolute conquest of his heart"

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

Date: 1751

"A heart so capable of feeling all the force of love, must be a conquest worthy the most ardent pursuits"

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

Date: 1751

"Your wit, your youth, and beauty, have made an absolute conquest of my heart."

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

Date: 1751

"His good sense, however, at last convinced him, that as no solid happiness could be expected with a woman of miss Betsy's temper, he ought to conquer his passion for her."

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

Date: 1751

Clarissa, if any "woman ever could, would have given a glorious instance of a passion conquered, or at least kept under, by Reason, and by Piety"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Date: 1751

"[T]hat I have concealed my sentiments with so much care, you must impute to my fixed resolution of conquering a passion I could never hope to indulge with innocence"

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

Date: 1751

"[I]f you do not desire to have me miserable, conquer this fatal passion, and do not interrupt my endeavours to restore myself to that tranquillity which you have deprived me of"

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

Date: 1751

"Conquer your passion, if you are able"

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

Date: 1751

"Your wit, your youth, and beauty, have made an absolute conquest of my heart."

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

Date: 1751

"If a passion can be conquered, it is a sacrifice a good child owes to indulgent parents"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)