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: 1754

Two charming maids may be "By nature form'd to conquer hearts"

— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)

Date: 1755

"Like Death impartial, [Love] presents his Dart, / And sure to conquer, aims at ev'ry Heart"

— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)

Date: 1755

"Yet you disdain the meaner arts / By women us'd to conquer hearts."

— Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)

Date: 1756

"I ask not Her heart, but would conquer my own"

— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)

Date: 1757-9

Peace and war alternately succeed in the lover

— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]

Date: 1758

"COME, Epictetus, arm my breast / With thy impenetrable steel, / No more the wounds of grief to feel, / Nor mourn, by others' woes deprest."

— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)

Date: 1758

Here lurks DISTEMPER's horrid train / And there the PASSIONS lift their flaming brands; / These with fell rage my helpless body tear, / While those, with daring hands, / Against th' immortal soul their impious weapons rear."

— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)

Date: 1759

"Learn first, a Conquest, o'er yourselves, to gain, / That o'er our Sex, you may victorious reign."

— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)

Date: 1760, 1803

"To farther conquests still my soul aspires, / And all my bosom glows with martial fires"

— Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)