Date: 1684

The Passions may raise "Civil Wars" and discompose man "with intestine Jars"

— Oldham, John (1653-1683)

Date: 1684

To do, perform; all wandring thoughts again; / No vulgar Act, Sense, Fancy where did Reign / Usurping Lords, to make them know Subjection; / Mount Reason on the Throne, wise circumspection.

— Harington, John (1627-1700)

Date: 1684

One may " Beget more Sighs then if with Arts / He should design to conquer Hearts"

— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)

Date: 1684

One may "conquer a Heart with a Look or a Smile"

— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)

Date: 1684

"[T]ake this Life, whose chiefest part / I gave you with the Conquest of my Heart"

— 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"

— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)

Date: 1684

A "charming Voice, and Art" may gain "the conquest of my Heart

— Oldham, John (1653-1683)

Date: 1684

A captive heart may wear a beloved's chain

— Oldham, John (1653-1683)

Date: 1684

One may be as great a Conqueror as Caesar, "Who couldst by milder ways all Hearts subdue, / The nobler Conquest of the two"

— Oldham, John (1653-1683)

Date: 1704

"Erect your schemes with as much method and skill as you please; yet, if the materials be nothing but dirt, spun out of your own entrails (the guts of modern brains), the edifice will conclude at last in a cobweb; the duration of which, like that of other spiders’ webs, may be imputed to their be...

— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)