Date: 1714
"If Pity dwells within your noble Breast, / (As sure it does) oh speak not to me thus!"
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1714
"Time presses, and a thousand crowding Thoughts / Break in at once; this Way and that they snatch, / They tear my hurry'd Soul. All claim Attention, / And yet not one is heard."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1714, 1735
" What cruel Dæmon haunts my tortur'd Mind? / Sure, if 'twere Love, I shou'd th'Invader find;"
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1715
I have a Thought--but wherefore said I one, / I have a thousand Thoughts all up in Arms, / Like populous Towns disturb'd at dead of Night, / That mixt in Darkness bustle to and fro, / As if their Business were to make Confusion.
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1715
"Love is a generous Volunteer; Lust a Mercenary Slave"
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1718
"Inmate Divine! Celestial Guest! / Who dost inhabit every pious Breast"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1718
"When first to Think your active Mind essay'd, / And young Ideas in your Fancy play'd, / While dawning Reason's unexperienc'd Ray / Drew a faint Scetch of Intellectual Day, / Your Parents, who the Laws of Heav'n revere, / And make Immortal Bliss their pious Care, / Assiduous strove by mild Instru...
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1718
"Our faithful Censor laid asleep within, / We undisturb'd take down full Draughts of Sin."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1718
"Should you at length decide the doubtful War, / Renounce to Virtue, and for Vice declare, / You'll ne'er in Triumph captive Reason lead, / On Conscience wholly conquer'd never tread."
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Date: 1718
"Call to your Aid the Arts of Earth and Hell, / Th' upbraiding Guest within you'll ne'er expel."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)