Date: 1724

"My passions war--and thought opposing thought, / Shakes my whole frame, till I am mad with doubting."

— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)

Date: 1724

"My flame revives!--each fit comes stronger on me! / Varying convulsions torture every nerve! / I love! I rage!--hate--fear--and love again! / And burn, and die with a whole war of passions!"

— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)

Date: 1728

"Poll performs her Parts / With such Grace and Arts, / That each Night she conquers Hearts, / Both in Pit and Boxes."

— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)

Date: 1728

"You found an easy Conquest of my Heart."

— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)

Date: 1728

Imaginary Conquests may swell the Mind

— Pattison, William (1706-1727)

Date: 1728

"At once thy small, yet glorious Dart / Shall conquer Love's, and Laura's Heart."

— Pattison, William (1706-1727)

Date: 1729, 1737

"She laugh'd at all the puny Arts, / Which conquer other Female Hearts"

— Thurston, Joseph (1704-1732)

Date: 1729, 1737

" 'Why wouldst thou follow with delusive Art, / 'So poor a Conquest as a female heart?"

— Thurston, Joseph (1704-1732)

Date: 1730

"No light the darkness of that mind invades, / Where Chaos rules, enshrin'd in genuine Shades;"

— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)

Date: 1731, 1753

"Shines there a captain, form'd, for war's controul, / Born, with the seeds of conquest, in his soul?"

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)