Date: 1708
"Passions are too hurrying to last; Vapours that start from a Mercurial Brain, whose wild Chimera's flush the lighter Faculties, which tir'd i'th' vain pursuit of fancy'd Pleasures."
preview | full record— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)
Date: 1713
"Alas, thy Story melts away my Soul."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1714
"Unhappy Sex! Whose easie yielding Temper / Gives Way to every Appetite alike; / Each gust of Inclination, uncontroul'd, / Sweeps thro' their Souls, and sets 'em in an uproar; / Each Motion of their Heart rises to Fury, / And Love in their weak Bosoms is a Rage / As terrible as Hate, and as destr...
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1714
"But tho' my Mouth be dumb, my Heart shall thank you; / And when it melts before the Throne of Mercy, / Mourning, and bleeding, for my past Offences, / My fervent Soul shall breath one Prayer for you."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1715
"Their old Hearts melted in 'em as she spoke, / And Tears ran down upon their silver Beards."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1715
"The Man's Passion is now at the Top, and Things cannot long stand at the Top; it is an old Observation I have made, that when the Pot boils over, it cools it self:--But then the Fat's all in the Fire--Ay! that is not as it shou'd be--she shou'd encourage him a little, or the hot Fit will be over...
preview | full record— Bullock, Christopher (bap. 1690, d. 1722)
Date: April 18, 1721
"He's gone, and now / I must unsluice my overburden'd Heart, / And let it flow."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: February 22, 1723
"For 'tis th' infirmity of noblest minds, / When ruffled with an unexpected woe, / To speak what settled prudence wou'd conceal: / As the vex'd ocean working in a storm, / Oft brings to light the wrecks which long lay calm, / In the dark bosom of the secret deep."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: 1723
"Look on the Boy, / And let his manly Face, which promiseth / Successful Fortune, steel thy melting Heart / To hold thy own, and leave thine own with him."
preview | full record— Cibber, Theophilus (1703-1758)
Date: 1724
"Revenge, remorse, and love divide my soul, / Like three wild streams that rush against each other!"
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)