Date: 1708
"That Passion you describe's a sleeping Potion, a lazy, stupid, lethargy of Mind, that nums our Faculties, destroys our Reason"
preview | full record— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)
Date: 1713
"My Heart is wounded, when I see such Virtue / Afflicted by the Weight of such Misfortunes."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1714
"Joy of my Life, my dearest Shore, forbear / To wound my Heart with thy foreboding Sorrows."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1714
"Well then, I own my Heart has broke your Chains. / Patient I bore the painful Bondage long, / At length my generous Love disdains your Tyranny."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1714
"What charitable Hand will aid me now? / Will stay my failing Steps, support my Ruines, / And heal my wounded Mind with Balmy Comfort?"
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1715
"Tho' sure the Loss / Wou'd wound me to the Heart."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1715
"Read there the fatal Purpose of thy Foe, / A Thought which Wounds my Soul with Shame and Horror."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: January 16, 1719
"Sophronia, now, mark her, if she takes a right turn now, I shall see her whole Heart naked, and Judge accordingly."
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: First performed February 17, 1720.
"O self-destroying Monster! that art blind, / Yet putt'st out Reason's Eyes, that still shou'd guide thee, / Then plungest down some Precipice unseen, / And art no more!--Hear me, all-gracious Heav'n!"
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: First performed February 17, 1720.
"It wounds my Heart / To think thou follow'st but to share my Ruin."
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)