Date: 1714
"If she have such Dominion o'er his Heart, / And turn it at her Will; you rule her Fate, / And should, by Inference and apt Deduction, / Be Arbiter of his."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1714
"Have you examin'd / Into your inmost Heart, and try'd at leisure / The several secret Springs that move the Passions? / Has Mercy fix'd her Empire there so sure, / That Wrath and Vengeance never may return?"
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1714, 1735
"Alas! 'tis so--'tis fix'd the secret Dart; / I feel the Tyrant [Love] ravaging my Heart."
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1715
"Thy gentle Temper, / Is form'd with Passions mixt in due Proportion, / Where no one overbears nor plays the Tyrant, / But join in Nature's Business, and thy Happiness: / While mine disdaining Reason and her Laws, / Like all thou can'st imagine wild and furious, / Now drive me head-long on, now w...
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1715, 1727
"[A]ll the Faculties of my Soul and Body are her Slaves"
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1715
"Love is a generous Volunteer; Lust a Mercenary Slave"
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1715
"Love is a Court of Honour in the Heart"
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1715
Love may be a "scandalous Itching, a Rebellion in the Blood"
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1716
One's head may be "perpetually confounded with the Fumes of Ale and Faction"
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1717
"But, they who have considered with care the foundation and circumstances of their actions, doubt of their freedom, and are even persuaded, that their reason and understanding are slaves that cannot resist the force which carries them along."
preview | full record— Collins, Anthony (1676-1729)