Date: 1716
"If midst of Thoughts that crowd into thy Mind, / The Care of absent Friends a Place can find, / Retire a while from Warlike Noise and Throng / Into thy inmost Tent, and listen to my Song."
preview | full record— Monck [née Molesworth], Mary (1677?-1715)
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)
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: 1721
"Belinda, much confused, looked first on him, then on her Mother, remaining silent, seized with a Passion she had been a Stranger to till that Moment. "
preview | full record— Aubin, Penelope (1679?-1731?)
Date: 1722, 1725
"LOVE! as it is one of the first Passions for which the Soul finds room, so it is also the most easily deceiv'd"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1722, 1739
"Thoughts of what I must suffer by the Loss of Don Antonio were crowded in my Imagination, and left no Room for Rest."
preview | full record— Aubin, Penelope (1679?-1731?)
Date: 1723
"Then, gentle Muse, be still my Guest; / Take full Possession of my Breast."
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1723, 1725
"Tho' nothing is more base than for the Tongue or Pen to make Professions of a Passion which the Heart is a Stranger to, yet nothing is more in fashion even among those who pretend to the greatest Honour of both Sexes"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1723, 1725
"The entire Confidence he always had of her Love and Virtue was now in as full Force as ever; and all those Notions which had crowded into his Soul at his first coming into the Chamber, and beholded so unexpected, and, indeed, so distracting a Sight, now vanish'd, and were no more remember'd"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1723, 1725
"[A] thousand fond endearing Things crowded at once into his Soul, and press'd for Utterance!
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)