Date: 1723
"For, trust me, Love (that Inmate of the Mind) / Is very much mistaken by Mankind / For which too often is misunderstood / The sudden Rage and Madness of the Blood."
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
Date: 1723
"And now his Spirits by the Impulse move / Of the new Guest [Love], while soft unpractis'd Pains / Throb in his Breast and thrill along his Veins."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1724
"Thy happy Fancy form'd the bright Design, / And crowding Thoughts with charming Numbers grac'd:"
preview | full record— Concanen, Matthew (1701-1749)
Date: 1724
"yet the soul, / Like a soft babe, inur'd to foolish fondness, / Is hard to wean from wailing."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1724
"My thoughts are furies all!--and turn upon me! / I feel their whips!--They lash me with remorse! / My brain grows hot!--Hell glows in my mad bosom!"
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1724
"For Nature by fix'd Laws has wisely join'd / The bright Ideas of the conscious Mind / To Motions of the liquid spirit'ous Train, / Thro' previous Traces of the humid Brain; / These, when the Soul by drowsy Sleep oppress'd / Into her private Cell retires to Rest, / Thro' beaten Paths their wand'r...
preview | full record— Needler, Henry (1690-1718); Duncombe, William (1690-1769)
Date: 1725
"Come, Reader, learn here what thou art, come see / Thy inmost Pow'rs; acquaint thy self with Thee, / View here the secret and mysterious Guest, / The Tenant, yet the Stranger of thy Breast"
preview | full record— Glanvil, John (1664-1735)
Date: 1725-6
"While thus his thoughts an anxious council hold, / The raging God a wat'ry mountain roll'd"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.
Date: 1725
In composition " Where chance presides, all objects wildly join'd, / Crowd on the reader, and distract his mind; / From theme to theme unwilling is he tost, / And in the dark variety is lost"
preview | full record— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Date: 1725
"A glorious train of images may find, / Preventing hope, and crowding on the mind."
preview | full record— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)