Date: 1728
"My Heart was so free, / It rov'd like the Bee, / 'Till Polly my Passion requited."
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
Date: 1731
"And light-wing'd Fancy danc'd and flam'd about her!"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1732
"My Heart flutters like a Bird: I long for Mrs. Martha's Return.
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)
Date: 1739
"My Heart flutters within me for Fear of him, like a Bird that's hunted in a Cage."
preview | full record— Bellamy, Daniel, the Elder (b. 1687)
Date: 1762
"Thy griefs pent up, have prey'd upon thy heart."
preview | full record— Cradock, Joseph (1742-1826)
Date: 1785
"I was surpriz'd, taken unawares, passion ran away with me like an unbroke horse: but I have got him under now; I can govern him with a twine of thread."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: February 2, 1796
"Her head's like the island, folks tell on, / Which nothing but monkies can dwell on"
preview | full record— Hoare, Prince (1755-1834)