Date: February 22, 1723
"With reason quell / That haughty passion; treat it as your slave: / Resume the monarch!"
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
"At this late hour, / What discord breaks the virtuous harmony, / Which wont to reign within thy pious breast?"
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: 1723, 1735
One may fear a growing empire in another's heart
preview | full record— Hildebrand, Jacob (1692/3-1739)
Date: 1722, 1723
"For Jesus sake, remove not my Distress, / Till free Triumphant Grace shall Reposess / The Vacant Throne; from whence my Sins Depart, / And make a willing Captive of my Heart."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1723, 1740
"My Sister weeping! Tho' her Reason governs, / I judge her Grief for Cassius, by my own."
preview | full record— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)
Date: 1724
A man may be ruled by "Honour and true Reason," "Which makes Submission to his Will / Nae Slav'ry, but a just Delight"
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: 1724
"What a slave is man, when passion masters him?"
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1724
"Nay by the Hate (since Love is now no more) / The fix'd Aversion that usurps your Bosom, / (The native Seat of Gentleness and Pity) / By That and by its Cause, my late Transgression, / So black, so heinous as to shame Remorse, / Indulge that Hate, and give Revenge a loose / In this one Thought,...
preview | full record— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
Date: 1724
"It is for this Reason, that I have so largely set down the Particulars of the Caresses I was treated with by the Jeweller, and also by this Prince; not to make the Story an Incentive to the Vice, which I am now such a sorrowful Penitent for being guilty of, God forbid any shou'd make so vile a U...
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: Friday, November 6. 1724.
"Where this Passion is Real, It will be the Sovereign of the Mind. It moulds the Soul to its own Purposes; and lends its own Eyes to the Understanding."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)