Date: 1752
"Assist me, Furies, with your hellish Aid, / Nor let the Tyrant Conscience more invade; / Since I am stain'd with Blood, thro' Blood I'll wade."
preview | full record— Gentleman, Francis (1728-1784)
Date: 1756
"Infernal Jealousy! thou foe to rest, / Despotic ruler in the female breast, / Of Love begot, unnatural, and dire, / Thou prey'st upon the vitals of thy fire."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1759
"Is human nature exil'd from thy breast?"
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Date: w. 1764, published 1820
"Yet, why repine? What, though by bonds confined, / Should bonds enslave the vigour of the mind?"
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1767
"Be rul'd by reason for your beauty's sake."
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Date: 1768
"Hope and fear alternate rising, / Strive for empire o'er my heart."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1780
"Once love gets into a man's head, poor reason is brought before a court-martial of the passions, and cashiered without a hearing"
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: 1785
Play [gambling] may be a ruling passion
preview | full record— MacNally, Leonard (1752-1820)
Date: 1786
Love of admiration may be a ruling passion
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)