Date: 1749

"By this friendly Aid of Fear, Conscience obtained a compleat Victory in the Mind of Black George, and after making him a few Compliments on his Honesty, forced him to deliver the Money to Jones."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1749

"Molly was charmed with the first Opportunity she had ever had of shewing her Beauty to Advantage; for though she could very well bear to contemplate herself in the Glass, even when drest in Rags; and though she had in that Dress conquered the Heart of Jones, and perhaps of some others; yet she t...

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1749

"Among other of his Conquests, this Fellow had triumphed over the Heart of Betty Seagrim."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1749

"In short, no sooner had the amorous Parley ended, and the Lady had unmasked the Royal Battery, by carelessly letting her Handkerchief drop from her Neck, than the Heart of Mr. Jones was entirely taken, and the fair Conqueror enjoyed the usual Fruits of her Victory."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1749

"Mr. Fitzpatrick would never have found sufficient Opportunities to have engaged my Heart, which, in other Circumstances, I still flatter myself would not have been an easy Conquest to such a Person."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1749

"He told his Nephew, 'he wished with all his Heart he would endeavour to conquer a Passion, in which I cannot,' says he, 'flatter you with any Hopes of succeeding."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1751

"The eye, my dear, the wicked eye--has such a strict alliance with the heart--And both have such enmity to the judgment!"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Date: 1751

Clarissa, if any "woman ever could, would have given a glorious instance of a passion conquered, or at least kept under, by Reason, and by Piety"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Date: 1751

"If a passion can be conquered, it is a sacrifice a good child owes to indulgent parents"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Date: 1751

One may make a plan to make a conquest of a heart, which is "not very susceptible of tender impressions; but, on the contrary, fortified with insensibility and prejudice against the charms of the whole sex"

— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)