Date: 1717
"He has recited all his warlike Deeds, / To make Impression on your grateful Heart.:
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1717
"If once the Queen be parted from the Prince, / The Lustre of a Crown will soon efface / Th'Impression made upon a Woman's Heart."
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Date: 1717
"My Breast, my inward Soul is glowing hot, / It burns, it rages with devouring Fires."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1718
"There's not room in a Woman's Heart for more than one Object at a time."
preview | full record— Molloy, Charles (d. 1767)
Date: 1718
"Pierce this treacherous Heart, which Vice so long has held in Chains."
preview | full record— Molloy, Charles (d. 1767)
Date: 1719
"Hard was his Heart, inclos'd in Folds of Brass, / Who in a feeble Bark first boldly try'd / The Watry Path and Region of the Seas, /And adverse Winds and swelling Waves defy'd"
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: w. 1714, 1719, 1728
"While Hood-wink'd Ignorance her Reign resign'd, / Reason resum'd her Empire o'er the Mind"
preview | full record— Sewell, George (1690-1726)
Date: 1720
"The Goths were not so barbarous a Race / As the grim Rusticks of this motly Place; / Of Reason void, and Thought, whom Int'rest rules, / Yet will be Knaves tho' Nature meant them Fools."
preview | full record— Diaper, William (1686-1717)
Date: 1720
A woman's "Victorious Charms" may may a conquest o'er a lover's heart
preview | full record— Brown, Thomas (bap. 1663, d. 1704)
Date: 1720
"[L]et me imprint upon thy Mind, these my last Words that perhaps thou may'st ever hear from thy affectionate Father: "
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)