Date: 1724
"My flame revives!--each fit comes stronger on me! / Varying convulsions torture every nerve! / I love! I rage!--hate--fear--and love again! / And burn, and die with a whole war of passions!"
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1724
"The working Soul, unexercis'd abroad, / Like martial Nations, turns its numerous Powers / Upon its self; and sunk by native Weight, / Begins intestine Broils, and War at Home."
preview | full record— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
Date: 1724
"Is it a Dream, when at each Word you utter / In Scorn or Hate, my feav'rish Pulse beats high, / And all is War and Waste within my Bosom?"
preview | full record— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
Date: 1728
"If Love the Virgin's Heart invade, / How, like a Moth, the simple Maid / Still plays about the Flame!"
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
Date: 1731
"My Soul is torn with a vain War of Passions."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1734
Love may take the heart with storm and rule there alone
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)