Date: 1761, 1770
"Why should Hibernia let her daughters roam / Why not confin'd to conquer hearts at home?"
preview | full record— Thompson, Edward (1738-1786)
Date: 1770
Passions may invade the mind so that "the conscious body soon / In sympathetic languishment declines"
preview | full record— Armstrong, John (1708/9-1779)
Date: 1771
"There, 'mid her faithful vassal train, / With hearts to conquer, or to die, / Eliza sat; her beauteous mein / Eclips'd by Sorrow's tearful eye."
preview | full record— Colvill, Robert (d. 1788)
Date: 1773
"Not all their cruelty (the fair rejoin'd) / Shall ever boast a conquest o'er my mind"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1774
"Her charms my raptur'd eyes detain'd, / Her virtues conquer'd all my soul"
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1777
"Not all her arts my steady soul shall move, / And she shall find that Reason conquers Love"
preview | full record— Lyttelton, George, first Baron Lyttelton (1709-1773)
Date: 1779
One may be 'Untaught "to bear the wrongs of base mankind, / The last, and hardest conquest of the mind!"'
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1780, 1781, 1788
"Two passions there by soft contention please, / The love of martial Fame, and learned Ease: / These friendly colours, exquisitely join'd, / Form the enchanting picture of thy mind."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1780
" Let no remorse invade thy purposed mind, / But to one standard level all mankind."
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1782
"Hence all that is in man, pride, passion, art, / Powers of the mind , and feelings of the heart, / Insensible of Truth's almighty charms, / Starts at her first approach, and sounds to arms!"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)