Date: 1748
The [heart?] may be wounded and the wound may be secret
preview | full record— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)
Date: w. 1736, 1749
"Why should I drag along this life I hate, / Without one thought to mitigate the weight? / Whence this mysterious bearing to exist, / When every joy is lost, and every hope dismissed? / In chains and darkness wherefore should I stay, / And mourn in prison, while I keep the key?"
preview | full record— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)
Date: 1750
A heart may be "as true as the sun"
preview | full record— Jemmat [née Yeo], Catherine (bap. 1714, d. 1766?)
Date: 1751
"But could our Eyes behold the deep Recess, / Where soft Pamela's Thoughts in private rest, / You'd find, in spite of Hymen's sacred Vows, / Ten Hours in Twelve that she abhors her Spouse"
preview | full record— Leapor, Mary (1722-1746)
Date: 1751
"Consult your glass; then prune your wanton mind, / Nor furnish laughter for succeeding time."
preview | full record— Leapor, Mary (1722-1746)
Date: 1751, 1768
"When reason rules, what glory does ensue."
preview | full record— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)
Date: 1752
"The early days of wedded life / Are oft o'ercast by childish strife; / Then be it your peculiar care / To keep that season bright and fair; / For then's the time by gentle art / To fix your empire in his heart."
preview | full record— Clark [née Lewis], Esther (bap. 1716, d. 1794)
Date: 1752
"To charm his reason dress your mind, / Till love shall be with friendship joined."
preview | full record— Clark [née Lewis], Esther (bap. 1716, d. 1794)
Date: 1752
"Should passion e'er his soul deform, / Serenely meet the bursting storm; / Never in wordy war engage, / Nor ever meet his rage with rage. / With all our sex's softening art / Recall the lost reason to his heart; / Thus calm the tempest in his breast, / And sweetly soothe his soul to rest."
preview | full record— Clark [née Lewis], Esther (bap. 1716, d. 1794)
Date: 1752
"When cares invade your partner's heart, / Bear you a sympathising part, / And kindly claim your share of pain, / And half his troubles still sustain."
preview | full record— Clark [née Lewis], Esther (bap. 1716, d. 1794)