Date: 1719-1720, 1725
"Oh, Melliora! didst thou but know the thousandth Part of what this Moment I endure, the strong Convulsions of my warring Thoughts, thy Heart, steel'd as it is, and frosted round with Virtue, wou'd burst its icy Shield, and melt in Tears of Blood, to pity me."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1719-1720, 1725
"I am not vain enough of mine [beauty], to assure my self of making a Conquest of your Heart."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1719-1720, 1725
"No, Madam, reply'd I, 'tis not Violetta has that Power, but she, who unknowing that she did so, caught at first sight the Victory o're my Soul."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1719-1720, 1725
"My Lord, said he, as soon as they were alone, my perfidious Mistress, failing to make a Conquest of your Heart, is still willing to preserve that she had attain'd over mine."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1719-1720, 1725
"Melliora thought she had done a very heroick Action, and sate herself down on the Bed-side, in a pleas'd Contemplation of the Conquest, she believ'd her Virtue had gain'd over her Passion."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1720
A woman's "Victorious Charms" may may a conquest o'er a lover's heart
preview | full record— Brown, Thomas (bap. 1663, d. 1704)
Date: 1722, 1725
The proudest of the female Sex may glory in the Conquest of a Heart
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1722, 1725
"Reason, at last, has gain'd a Conquest over all that Softness which has hitherto betray'd me to Contempt"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1723, 1740
"A Heart by Kindness only gain'd, / Will a dear Conquest prove"
preview | full record— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)
Date: 1723, 1725
"Beauclair was more gallant; and believing that if ever he desir'd any greater Testimonies of the Conquest he had made of her Heart, than what her Eyes declar'd, now was the Time to obtain them."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)