Date: 1724
"Nay by the Hate (since Love is now no more) / The fix'd Aversion that usurps your Bosom, / (The native Seat of Gentleness and Pity) / By That and by its Cause, my late Transgression, / So black, so heinous as to shame Remorse, / Indulge that Hate, and give Revenge a loose / In this one Thought,...
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Date: 1725
"Stoop to the Gen'rous, if you seek Controll; / Vertue will fix your Empire on his Soul"
preview | full record— Odingsells, Gabriel (1690-1734)
Date: 1725
"When Friendship engraves the Image of Love, 'tis true, she proceeds by slow Degrees, But forms each Feature with the deepest Art, / And carves a lasting Image on the Heart."
preview | full record— Odingsells, Gabriel (1690-1734)
Date: 1726
"How the weak Mind a naked Blank, receives, / The first Impression Time, or Custom gives."
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1726
"Ha, ha, ha, he is shaken, my dear Ringwood; this Man of Depth and Inquiry; he is shaken; his Reason, like an ill-managed Horse, starts under him: What is this haughty Guide of imperious Man, this sufficient Word, Wisdom."
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1728
"When Love in an impetuous Torrent flows, / How vainly Reason would its Force oppose; / Hurl'd down the Stream, like Flowers before the Wind, / She leaves to Love, the Empire of the Mind."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1728
"I must have Women. There is nothing unbends the Mind like them."
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
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: 1728
"Though my Heart were as frozen as Ice, / At his Flame 'twould have melted away."
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
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)