Date: 1762

"She sometimes thought what he said was just, but aware of her partiality, she could not believe herself an unprejudiced judge, and feared that she might mistake the sophistry of love, for the voice of reason."

— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)

Date: January 1, 1760 - January 1, 1762; 1762

A woman's features may be so brightened by an occasion, that with the first glance she may make a conquest of the heart of a man

— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)

Date: 1762

"Unfortunately Miss Melvyn's charms made a conquest of this gentleman, in whom age had not gained a victory over passion."

— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)

Date: 1762

"He reverenced and respected her like a divinity, but hoped that prudence might enable him to conquer his passion."

— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)

Date: 1762

"Her sensibility was never so strongly awakened; all her endeavours to restrain it were no longer of force, her heart returned his passion, and would have conquered every thing but her justice and her honour."

— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)

Date: 1762

"He reverenced and respected her like a divinity, but hoped that prudence might enable him to conquer his passion, at the same time that it had not force enough to determine him to fly her presence, the only possible means of lessening the impression which every hour engraved more deeply on his h...

— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)

Date: 1762

"Whatever glaring signs of Mr. Alworth's love appeared, she set them all down to the account of friendship; till at length his mind was so torn with grief and despair, that no longer able to conceal the cause of his greatest sufferings, he begged her to teach him how to conquer a passion, which, ...

— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)

Date: 1762

"But she carefully concealed these new sensations, in hopes that he would more easily conquer his passion, for not thinking it returned."

— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)

Date: January 1, 1760 - January 1, 1762; 1762

"[M]y guardian angel forsook me when she expired! her last injunctions are deep engraven on my heart!"

— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)

Date: 1762

"We might spend our time in going from place to place, where none wish to see us except they find a deficiency at the card table, perpetually living among those, whose vacant minds are ever seeking after pleasures foreign to their own tastes, and pursue joys which vanish as soon as possessed."

— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)