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...

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1752

Many "kind Words" and "many kind Looks" may make an entire Conquest of the Heart

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1753

He had before this time, been smit with the ambition of making a conquest of the young lady's heart

— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)

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

— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)

Date: 1753

Extraordinary accomplishments may make a conquest of a woman's heart

— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)

Date: 1753

The conquest of a certain heart may cost a thousand times more labour and address than all previous victories

— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)

Date: 1753

"Nature, that form'd you loveliest, doubly kind, / To like perfection, rais'd your conquering mind"

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

Date: 1753

Conquer Hearts?

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)

Date: 1753

"Say, coward learning! long, too long, misled! / If, yet, thou dar'st erect thy dizzy head! / And art not, yet, heart-conquer'd quite, / By power and custom join'd; too, too unequal fight!"

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

Date: 1753

"I have thought long of this; and my first Feelings were like yours; a foolish Conscience aw'd me, which soon I conquer'd."

— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)