Date: 1728

"Olymphia grew calm and resigned, wiped away her Tears, and resolved to conquer the fond Passion that had undone her"

— Aubin, Penelope (1679?-1731?)

Date: 1728

"If Love the Virgin's Heart invade, / How, like a Moth, the simple Maid / Still plays about the Flame!"

— Gay, John (1685-1732)

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

"It must needs follow from hence, that Knowledge is an Inward and Active Energy of the Mind it self, and the displaying of its own Innate Vigour from within, whereby it doth Conquer, Master and Command its Objects, and so begets a Clear, Serene, Victorious, and Satisfactory Sense within it self."

— Cudworth, Ralph (1617-1688)

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)

Date: 1731, 1753

"I feel her now--th' invader fires my breast; / And my soul swells, to suit the heavenly guest."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)