Date: 1736
"PAULTONS affords me next a kind Retreat, / Where crowding Joys my grateful Heart dilate"
preview | full record— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)
Date: 1736
"A thousand Pleasures crowd into his Breast."
preview | full record— Fitzgerald, Thomas (1695-1752)
Date: 1727, 1739
"My Heart, no Stranger to the Guest [Love], / Flutter'd, and labour'd in my Breast"
preview | full record— Broome, William (1689-1745); Hesiod
Date: 1743
"For part they must: Body and Soul must part; / Fond Couple! link'd more close than wedded Pair."
preview | full record— Blair, Robert (1699-1746)
Date: 1746
One's sires's "great soul" may respire in one's breast
preview | full record— Ruffhead, James
Date: 1746
"All raving Passions soon wou'd be supprest" is man cou'd "but thro' eternity pervade"
preview | full record— Ruffhead, James
Date: 1753
Locke's "guiding Hand th'ideal Blank explores, / And opens wide the Senses' various Doors, / Thro' which the thronging Thoughts their Passage find, / In social Tribes, and stock the peopled Mind."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1754
"Then thus Philantha, in whose breast / Good-nature is a constant guest,"
preview | full record— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)
Date: 1755
"My heart was free from care: / Love was a stranger to my breast"
preview | full record— Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)
Date: 1746, 1757
"If Pity be no Stranger to thy Breast, / (As sure it should not to a Breast like thine, / Soft as the Swanny Down!) relenting, hear"
preview | full record— Thompson, William (bap. 1712, d.c. 1766)