Date: 1774

"When they come to be a little better acquainted with themselves, and with their own species, they discover that plain right reason is, nine times in ten, the fettered and shackled attendant of the triumph of the heart and the passions; and, consequently, they address themselves nine times in ten...

— Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)

Date: 1774

"I will show your letter to Duval, by way of justification for not answering his challenge; and I think he must allow the validity of it; for a frozen brain is as unfit to answer a challenge in poetry, as a blunt sword is for a single combat."

— Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)

Date: 1774

"Her charms my raptur'd eyes detain'd, / Her virtues conquer'd all my soul"

— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)

Date: 1774

"Great pride always accompanies delicacy, however concealed under the appearance of the utmost gentleness and modesty, and is the passion of all others most difficult to conquer."

— Gregory, John (1724-1773)

Date: 1775

"Body may be overcome by body, but the mind only can conquer itself."

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1775

"This my success in search of Friendship's grove, / Where Liberty and Peace I hoped to find, / And soften'd thus with Grief, deceitful Love, / In Friendship's borrow'd garb, attack'd my mind."

— Miss H******* (fl. 1751-1775)

Date: 1776

"If you cannot like my brother, tell him so, and perhaps the wound which his self-love must receive from your denial, may rouse him to attempt the conquest of an hopeless passion."

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1776

"I acknowledge the unreasonableness of my pursuit, but when had reason power to conquer love?"

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1776

"But that if my promising never to enter into those engagements, with any other person, which I declined with him, could make him happy, he might depend upon my word; provided he wou'd in return, give up the thoughts of abandoning his country, family and friends, on my account, but endeavour to c...

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1776

"Though I wou'd by no means have advised your pursuing Lady Juliana to her retreat, I congratulate you on the conclusion of your romance; for surely my friend will now exert himself to conquer a passion, which he must own it wou'd be the height of folly to indulge any further."

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)