Date: 1720
"For wary Clerks learn all these Arts / To gain Esteem, and conquer Hearts."
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
Date: 1733
"And happy He, that with prevailing Art / Could gain a Conquest o'er her Virgin Heart"
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1733
One may "Conquer all Hearts without designing"
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1733
"Such is Clemene, when her Mind / Is to invading Grief resign'd."
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1735
"'Twere endless to describe the various Darts, / With which the Fair are arm'd to conquer Heart"
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1736
"Weighty cares may "the pensive Mind invade"
preview | full record— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)
Date: 1737
"'If passion once invade the female mind, / '(Tenacious sex!) in vain would mortal art / 'Wrench the warm weapon from the bleeding heart."
preview | full record— Thurston, Joseph (1704-1732)
Date: 1747
"Strange force of Harmony, whose Power controuls, / The warring Passions, and informs our Souls, / Soft soothing Sounds, by whose enchantment blest, / Anger and Grief forsake the tranquil Breast; / While soft Ideas rising in the Mind, / Bids us in Love a gentle Tyrant find, / And to his Sway the ...
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1747
"Beware the fatal Passion you inspire: / Each soft intruding Wish in Time reprove, / And guard against the sweet Envader Love."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1747
"Forbear to show thy heavenly Art, / Nor aim a Conquest o'er my Mind."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)