Date: 1751
"[H]e could not help gazing at her with desire, and forming the design of making a conquest of her heart"
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Date: 1751
One may behave with such generosity as to make" an absolute conquest" of a woman's heart
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Date: 1751
One may act as if he had "gained an absolute conquest over all the passions of the heart"
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Date: 1751
One may look upon his love for a woman "as a passion which it was necessary, at any rate, to conquer or suppress"
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Date: 1752
Affections struggle for superiority in the mind
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Date: 1752
"Upon the whole, however, she past a miserable and sleepless Night, her gentle Mind torn and distracted with various and contending Passions, distressed with Doubts, and wandring in a kind of Twilight, which presented her only Objects of different Degrees of Horrour, and where black Despair close...
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Date: 1752
Many "kind Words" and "many kind Looks" may make an entire Conquest of the Heart
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Date: 1753
He had before this time, been smit with the ambition of making a conquest of the young lady's heart
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Date: 1753
A man may cunningly cater for the gratification of a woman's ruling appetite and gain upon her heart making with rapidity conquest over the affections
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Date: 1753
Extraordinary accomplishments may make a conquest of a woman's heart
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