Date: 1700
"This Commission, Madam, was my Pasport to the Fair; adding a nobleness to my Passion, it stampt a value on my Love"
preview | full record— Farquhar, George (1676/7-1707)
Date: 1701
"Stand by ye Fools--That noble Theam's my share,/ Farce is a Strain too low to court the Fair; / When to that pitch your Thoughts attempt to fly, / Like unskill'd Icarus you soar too high."
preview | full record— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)
Date: 1702
Some Objects may "promote our Joy, are bright to the Eye, or stamp upon our Minds, Pleasure, and Self-satisfaction"
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1702
"For a Comick Poet is obliged to put off himself, and transform himself into his several Characters; to enter into the Foibles of his several persons, and all the Recesses and secret turns of their minds, and to make their Passions, their Interests, and their Concern his own."
preview | full record— Dennis, John (1658-1734)
Date: 1702
"Why hangs my Heart thus heavy / Like Death within my Bosom?"
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1702
"Oh, Glorious Thought! By Heav'n! I will enjoy it, / Tho' but in Fancy; Imagination shall / Make room to entertain the vast Idea."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1702
"Stop thee there, Arpasia, / And bar my Fancy from the guilty Scene; / Let not Thought enter, lest the busie Mind / Should muster such a train of monstrous Images, / As wou'd distract me."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1700, 1702
"So was the Monarchs heart for passion moulded, / So apt to take at first the soft impression."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1700, 1702
"My Son shall breathe so warm a gale of sighs, / As shall dissolve those Isicles, that hang / Like death about her heart."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1700, 1702
"Whom should we seek for Friendships but those few, / Those happy few, within whose Breasts alone, / The Footsteps of lost Virtue yet remain?"
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)