Date: 1691
"Oh never doubt me, I'll not break my Word,--and now sweet Angel, my Joys crowd thick about my Heart, and long for vent, the approaching happiness looks so like Heaven that I methinks am extasied already"
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1691
"And all the noble Notions in my Soul, / Which crowded with a fondness to prefer thee, / I here dismiss, and in their Room admit / As base thoughts of thee, as thy intended Practice!"
preview | full record— Mountfort, William (c.1664-1692)
Date: 1691
"Blast not my Entertainment with that thought Madam, my senses are all charmed with such perfection, they'r Crowding which shall be first Gratified."
preview | full record— Mountfort, William (c.1664-1692)
Date: 1693
"Thy Wit and Beauty charm'd my panting Breast, / And first inspir'd thy Love into my heart! Which Was till then a stranger:"
preview | full record— Higden, Henry (bap. 1645)
Date: 1696
"What's this I feel thus rising in my Breast? Have I room there for any thing but Love? From whence then this new Guest? Is't Jealousie? "
preview | full record— Scott, Thomas (fl. 1696-1697)
Date: 1696
"No, for I have heard some say, Men are ne're less alone, then when alone. reason I suppose is this, because they have Crowds of Thoughts, that still per the Mind; which wou'd be like the Soul retired and free, thereby to enjoy sweet Repose, which nought but that can Grant."
preview | full record— Harris, Joseph (fl. 1684-1703)
Date: 1696
"I find the danger now: my Spirits start / At the alarm, and from all quarters come / To Man my Heart, the Citadel of love."
preview | full record— Southerne, Thomas (1659-1746)
Date: 1700
"I cannot view you, Madam: For when you speak, all the Faculties of my charm'd Soul crowd to my attentive Ears; desert my Eyes, which gaze insensibly"
preview | full record— Farquhar, George (1676/7-1707)
Date: 1699, 1700
"New Joy so crowds my Heart, I cannot bear it."
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1701
"My Reason's conquer'd by more powerful Love, / Who rules as Tyrant in my captiv'd Breast."
preview | full record— Sherburne, Sir Edward (bap. 1616, d. 1702)