Date: 1724
"My lord, this seems th' extravagance of passion! / When anger rushes, unrestrain'd, to action, / Like a hot steed, it stumbles in its way!"
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Date: 1724
"Tho' the soft dove brood, gall-less, o'er your breast, / Yet let the wary serpent arm your mind."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1725-6
"The Reader may be pleas'd to observe, that the Poet has here given the reins to his fancy, and run out into a luxuriant description of Ægusa and Sicily."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.
Date: 1725-6
"Men do not put bridles upon horses when they are already running with full speed, but they bridle them before they bring them out to the race: This very well illustrates the conduct of Ulysses; he fears the youth of Telemachus may be too warm, and through an unseasonable ardour at the sight of h...
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Date: 1725-6
"'Tis hard, he cries, to bring to sudden sight / Ideas that have wing'd their distant flight."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.
Date: 1725-6
"Round his swol'n heart the murm'rous fury rowls; / As o'er her young the mother-mastiff growls, / And bays the stranger groom: so wrath comprest / Recoiling, mutter'd thunder in his breast"
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Date: 1725-6
"The similitude it self is very expressive; as the mastiff barks to guard her young, so labours the soul of Ulysses in defence of his Son and Wife, Penelope and Telemachus. "
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Date: 1725-6
"Son coeur rugissoit an dedans de luy, comme un Lion rugit autour d'une bergerie, où il ne sçauroit entrer."
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Date: 1725-6
"The bowls and urns of living stone, are the body which are form'd out of the earth; the bees that make their honey in the cave are the souls of men, which perform all their operations in the body, and animate it; the beams on which the Nymphs roul their webs, are the bones over which the admirab...
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Date: March 13, 1727
"Must these like empty shadows pass, / Or forms reflected from a glass? / Or mere chimeras in the mind, / That fly, and leave no marks behind?"
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)