Date: Licens'd Decemb. 22. 1691
"For still I did preserve your Image in my Heart, and you were ever present to my dearest Thoughts."
preview | full record— Congreve, William (1670-1729)
Date: 1726, 1753
"The great grow greater, while its force they prove, / But little hearts want room, and cripple love."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1760
"Whenever this shall be executed, it is to be looked upon as the work of true genius; but when fallen short of, as often happens, it is to be deemed the impotent effort of the hard-bound brains of low plagiaries, whose memory is filled with the shreds and ill-chosen scraps of other mens wit."
preview | full record— Macklin, Charles (1697-1797)