Date: 1706 [1707]
"The Man that's Resolute and Just, / Firm to his Principles and Trust, / Nor Hopes, nor Fears can blind; / No Passions his Designs controll, / Not Love, that Tyrant of the Soul, / Can shake his steddy Mind."
preview | full record— Walsh, William (bap. 1662, d. 1708)
Date: 1706
"There's but one Way however to resent it from a Woman; and that's to drive her bravely from your Heart, and place a worthier in her vacant Throne."
preview | full record— Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)
Date: 1706
"Now with Submission to my Betters, I have another way, Sir; I'll drive my Tyrant from my Heart, and place my self in her Throne."
preview | full record— Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)
Date: 1707, 1710
"Reason will judge, when both their Claims produce."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)
Date: 1707, 1710
"So can the pow'rful Grape our Reason cheat, / And o'er our giddy Fancy reign."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)
Date: 1707
"Lost in Labyrinths of Love, / My Breast with hoarded Vengeance burns, / While Fear and Rage / With Hope engage, / And rule my wav'ring Soul by turns."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"Yes, Oswald, by the conscious Judge within, / So do I stand acquitted to my self, / That were my Ethelinda free from Danger, / On Peril of my Life, I would make known, / And to the World avow my Love and Faith."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"My faithful Seofrid / Has pierc'd into her very inmost Heart, / And found thee reigning there."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"Since Love is lost, / Come thou Revenge, succeed thou to ray Bosom, / And reign in all my Soul."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)