Date: 1730, 1731
"But now, my Muse, the arduous Task engage, / And show the Charming Figure on the Stage, / Describe her Look, her Action, Voice and Mein, / The gay Coquette, soft Maid, or haughty Queen, / So bright she [Mrs. Oldfield] shone in every different Part, / She gain'd despotick Empire o'er the Heart, /...
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1731
"Worn out with Cares, and tott'ring in her Seat, / The Soul resigns her Throne, and seeks Retreat."
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1731
"No longer Reason could her Empire boast, / But in the soft Astonishment was lost."
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1731-1732, 1777
"Your poet shall allot your Lord his part, / And paint him in his noblest throne--your heart."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1732
"High o'er the verseful Throng, you stand, alone, / Asserting boundless Fancy's rightful Throne"
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1735-6
"Yielded reason speaks the soul a slave."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1735-6
"Thus human life, unhinged, to ruin reel'd,
And giddy Reason totter'd on her throne."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1735-6
"Of one who, should the unkingly thirst of gold, / Or tyrant passions, or ambition, prompt, / Calls locust-armies o'er the blasted land:"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1735, 1792
"Just so supreme, unmated, and alone, / The Soul assumes her intellectual throne"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1735, 1792
"Around their queen attendant spirits watch, / Each rising thought with prompt observance catch, / The tidings of internal passion spread, / And thro' each part the swift contagion shed"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)