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Date: 1723, 1725
"When once a Woman has disposed of every Thing in her Power to give, it must be Softness only, and fond Compliance with her Lover's Will, that can maintain her Empire o'er his Heart."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1723, 1725
Fancy may stoop "to court the Aid of Sense, / Unable to conceive such Excellence!"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1723, 1725
"AS Tapers languish at th' Approach of Day," and as the "Book of Fame" may be "Eraz'd and blotted," "So fully o'er the Soul may a lover's Influence reign, "That not one Rebel-Thought [its] Sway disdains"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1723, 1725
"I knew not how I should effect it, though a Multitude of Inventions crowded that Moment at once into my Head, and flatter'd me with some little Hopes."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1724
"[T]he dear, the happy Secret safe lodg'd within my Soul, shou'd take no Air, nor let in the least room for a Conjecture"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1724, 1756
"Consult the native Dictates of thy Soul; / And if thou there discern the Maker's Hand, / Confess his Care, resign to his Command."
preview | full record— Tollet, Elizabeth (1694-1754)
Date: 1724, 1756
Wit is a "rebel Folly" that must be taught "That 'tis her noblest Conquest to submit"
preview | full record— Tollet, Elizabeth (1694-1754)
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: 1692, 1724
"Alas, I saw you, my dearest Prince, and from that fatal Moment my Heart rebell'd against my Reason, and forced from me numberless Sighs."
preview | full record— Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine) (1650/51-1705)
Date: 1692, 1724
"I must confess, said she, I am no ways alarm'd to hear of the Prince's Passion for a fine Woman, and am vain enough to flatter my self, that when he sees me I shall have it in my Power to deface the Impression she might have made on his Heart."
preview | full record— Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine) (1650/51-1705)
