Date: 1701
"'Tis you handsom Mercers that wound all the Ladies Hearts."
preview | full record— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)
Date: 1702
"The faculties of the Soul, like the parts of the Body, receive nourishment from use, and derive skill as well as they do force and vigour from exercise"
preview | full record— Dennis, John (1658-1734)
Date: 1702
"If my wounded Mind / Could know a Thought of Peace, it would be now."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1700, 1702
"Her thoughtful Soul, labours with some event / Of high import, which bustles like an Embryo / In its dark Room, and longs to be disclos'd."
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Date: 1704
"Who then wou'd court the Pomp of guilty Power, / When the Mind sickens at the weary Shew, / And flies to temporary Death for Ease."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1706
"If these known Arts cou'd heal my wounded Soul, / Cou'd recompence the Sorrows of my Days, / Or sooth the Sighings of my lonely Nights; / Well might you hope to woe me to your Wishes, / And win my Heart with your fond Tales of Love."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"Speak it, nor wound the Softness of my Soul / With these obscure Complainings; speak, my Lord."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"Rage, and the Violence of lawless Passion, / Have blinded your clear Reason; wherefore else / This frantick wild Demand?"
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Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"Curst be your Looks, your Tongues, and your false Arts, / That cheat our Eyes, and wound our easie Hearts."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1708
"That Passion you describe's a sleeping Potion, a lazy, stupid, lethargy of Mind, that nums our Faculties, destroys our Reason"
preview | full record— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)