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Date: 1729, 1737

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

— Thurston, Joseph (1704-1732)

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Date: 1729, 1737

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

— Thurston, Joseph (1704-1732)

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Date: 1730

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

— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)

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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)

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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)

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Date: 1732

One may "win and hold the Conquest of a Mind"

— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)

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Date: 1732

As music "certain Conquest makes, the Savage Soul refines"

— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)

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Date: 1732

"Shot from her eyes the conquering dart / That found a passage to his heart."

— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)

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Date: 1733

"And happy He, that with prevailing Art / Could gain a Conquest o'er her Virgin Heart"

— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)

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Date: 1733

One may "Conquer all Hearts without designing"

— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.