Date: 1703
"Self-love so crouds the human Breast, / That there's no Room for any other Guest"
preview | full record— Chudleigh [née Lee], Mary, Lady Chudleigh (bap. 1656, d. 1710)
Date: 1709
"How soft the first ideas prove, / Which wander through our minds!"
preview | full record— Finch [née], Anne, countess of Winchilsea (1666-1720)
Date: 1710
"Love fled, affrighted, from his Savage Breast, / A Place too cruel for so kind a Guest."
preview | full record— Chudleigh [née Lee], Mary, Lady Chudleigh (bap. 1656, d. 1710)
Date: 1713
"Falsly, the Mortal Part we blame / Of our deprest, and pond'rous Frame, / Which, till the First degrading Sin / Let Thee, its dull Attendant, in, / Still with the Other did comply, / Nor clogg'd the Active Soul, dispos'd to fly, / And range the Mansions of it's native Sky."
preview | full record— Finch [née], Anne, Countess of Winchilsea (1666-1720)
Date: 1720
"Large is my forehead made, not wond'rous fair, / But room enough for all the Muses there."
preview | full record— Sansom, Martha [née Fowke] (1690-1736)
Date: 1724, 1755
"Such Verse where Fear and humble Passion speak, / Where crowding Thoughts in soft Confusion break"
preview | full record— Tollet, Elizabeth (1694-1754)
Date: 1733
The "fond Breast" may be populated by "jealous Demons"
preview | full record— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)
Date: 1733
"Content is grown a Stranger to my Breast"
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1733
"Steal softly to her Heart, and see, / If any Room be left for me; / And if one Place be unpossess'd, / Fit to receive so true a Guest"
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1736, 1737, 1759, 1744, 1771, 1773
"Female youth, left to weak woman's care" are "Strangers to reason and reflection made, / Left to their passions, and by them betrayed; / Untaught the noble end of glorious truth, / Bred to deceive even from earliest youth; / Unused to books, nor virtue taught to prize; / Whose mind, a savage was...
preview | full record— Ingram, Anne [née Howard; other married name Douglas], Viscountess Irwin (c. 1696-1764)