Date: 1756
"I ask not Her heart, but would conquer my own"
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Date: 1757-9
Peace and war alternately succeed in the lover
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]
Date: 1759
"Learn first, a Conquest, o'er yourselves, to gain, / That o'er our Sex, you may victorious reign."
preview | full record— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Date: 1760, 1803
"To farther conquests still my soul aspires, / And all my bosom glows with martial fires"
preview | full record— Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)
Date: 1760, 1850
One may hope "to find / An easy conquest o'er a woman's mind"
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: 1760, 1850
An "anxious tender air / Proves o'er her heart the conquest won"
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: 1760, 1850
"Say, youth, and can'st thou keep secure / Thy heart from conquering beauty's power?"
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: 1761
One may "play to the eye with a mere monkey's art" and leave "to sense the conquest of the heart"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1762-3
"[T]he five senses in alliance [may] / To Reason hurl a proud defiance, / And, though oft conquer'd, yet unbroke, / Endeavour to throw off that yoke / Which they a greater slavery hold / Than Jewish bondage was of old"
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Date: 1762-3
"This glorious system form'd for man / To practise when and how he can, / If the five senses in alliance / To Reason hurl a proud defiance, / And, though oft conquer'd, yet unbroken, / Endeavour to throw off that yoke / Which they a greater slavery hold / Than Jewish bondage was of old."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)