Date: 1728
"Poll performs her Parts / With such Grace and Arts, / That each Night she conquers Hearts, / Both in Pit and Boxes."
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
Date: 1728
"You found an easy Conquest of my Heart."
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
Date: 1728
Imaginary Conquests may swell the Mind
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)
Date: 1728
"At once thy small, yet glorious Dart / Shall conquer Love's, and Laura's Heart."
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)
Date: 1729, 1737
"She laugh'd at all the puny Arts, / Which conquer other Female Hearts"
preview | full record— Thurston, Joseph (1704-1732)
Date: 1729, 1737
" 'Why wouldst thou follow with delusive Art, / 'So poor a Conquest as a female heart?"
preview | full record— Thurston, Joseph (1704-1732)
Date: 1730
"No light the darkness of that mind invades, / Where Chaos rules, enshrin'd in genuine Shades;"
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: 1731, 1753
"Shines there a captain, form'd, for war's controul, / Born, with the seeds of conquest, in his soul?"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1731, 1753
"I feel her now--th' invader fires my breast; / And my soul swells, to suit the heavenly guest."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1732
"Shot from her eyes the conquering dart / That found a passage to his heart."
preview | full record— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)