Date: 1700
"This Commission, Madam, was my Pasport to the Fair; adding a nobleness to my Passion, it stampt a value on my Love"
preview | full record— Farquhar, George (1676/7-1707)
Date: 1702
Some Objects may "promote our Joy, are bright to the Eye, or stamp upon our Minds, Pleasure, and Self-satisfaction"
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1704
"Who then wou'd court the Pomp of guilty Power, / When the Mind sickens at the weary Shew, / And flies to temporary Death for Ease."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1722
"The disappointed advocate, finding she had so unexpected a support, on cooler thoughts descended to a composition, which I, without her knowledge, secretly discharged."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1722
"You say this because I wrung you to the heart when I touched your guilty conscience about Judy"
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1722
"Have I then at last a father's sanction on my love? His bounteous hand to give and make my heart a present worthy of Bevil's generosity?"
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1739
"Base Fear, the Laziness of Lust, gross Appetites, / These are the Ladders, and the groveling Footstool, / From whence the Tyrant rises on our Wrongs, / Secure and scepter'd in the Soul's Servility."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1739
"How poor thy Pow'r, how empty is thy Happiness, / When such a Wretch, as I appear to be, / Can ride thy Temper, harrow up thy Form, / And stretch thy Soul upon the Rack of Passion."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1739
"List, list, my Lord! / While thus his Soul's unseated, shook by Passion, / Cou'd we engage him to betray Gustavus."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1739
"A gen'rous Mind, tho' sway'd a-while by Passion. / Is like the steely Vigour of the Bow, / Still holds its native Rectitude, and bends / But to recoil more forceful."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)