Date: 1696
"The Prince, at this moment, banish'd from his Breast the Idea of all the Court-Beauties he had ever seen, and gaz'd on this Master-piece of Nature so long, till he had imprinted Cordelia's Image too deep for time ever to deface."
preview | full record— Pix, Mary (c.1666-1720)
Date: 1702
"Shall then the seeming Beauty of this thing / So dis-ingage from Duty to the King / Of Glory, who alone should rule in Man? / The Heart should be his Throne."
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: 1702
"Reason, that honours Mankind more than Beast, / Gives forth its Laws and Dictates in each Breast"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: 1702
"Modesty, that in their Bosom reigns, / Detests and loaths whatever spots or stains"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: 1702
The "true Noble Mind / Conquers a Wrong by Patience, is resign'd / For Vertue's sake to bear, that Reason may / Be Re-enthron'd, and Passion pass away"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: w. 1682, 1702
"Chastity, sits as with awful Grace, / Enthron'd i'th' Heart, and sweetly in the Face / Holds forth its Ensign"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: w. 1678, 1702
"[B]e not over-curious to express / Too much Exactness in an outward Dress; / Lest peevish Passion should too oft prevail, / To banish Reason from its Throne, and vail / Sound Judgment"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: w. 1678, 1702
"[I]n thy Heart reveal / Eternal Life, as the abiding Seal / Of his endeared Love"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: 1706
"Not in the Court of Conscience, Sir."
preview | full record— Centlivre [née Freeman; other married name Carroll], Susanna (bap. 1669?, d. 1723)
Date: 1719-1720, 1725
"But when he consider'd how much he had struggled, and how far he had been from being able to repel Desire, he began to wonder that it cou'd ever enter into his Thoughts, that there was even a Possibility for Woman, so much stronger in her Fancy, and weaker in her Judgment, to suppress the Influe...
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)