Date: 1724
"Is it a Dream, when at each Word you utter / In Scorn or Hate, my feav'rish Pulse beats high, / And all is War and Waste within my Bosom?"
preview | full record— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
Date: 1726
"At that Answer I sat me down upon my Chest and burst into Tears, and had such a Combat in my Mind that bereav'd me of the Power even of thinking for some time."
preview | full record— Chetwood, William Rufus (d. 1766)
Date: 1726
"When she came back from Supper, I had got up and had drest my self; but the Combat in my Mind had really disorder'd my Body, which she soon saw."
preview | full record— Chetwood, William Rufus (d. 1766)
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
"If Love the Virgin's Heart invade, / How, like a Moth, the simple Maid / Still plays about the Flame!"
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
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)