Date: 1718
"Should you presumptuous, quit your safer Ground, / And seek the utmost Lines, which Vertue bound, / And on the Frontier to engage the Foe, With Reason 's weak collected Forces go, / You'll soon those nice, ill-guarded Limits pass, / Throw down your Arms, and fond her Feet embrace, / In her soft ...
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1718
"Alma, They strenuously maintain, / Sits Cock-horse on Her Throne, the Brain; / And from that Seat of Thought dispenses / Her Sov'reign Pleasure to the Senses."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1720
Justice, the "Queen of Virtues" may poize the mind in "equal balance" so that "All different Graces soon will enter, / Like Lines concurrent to their Center"
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1720
"You'll weep, I know you will; no Iron Chains / Confine thy Heart, thy Breast no Oak retains."
preview | full record— Dart, John (d. 1730); Tibullus (c. 54-19 B.C.)
Date: 1720
"Hence Superstition, that tormenting guest, / That haunts with fancy'd fears the coward breas;"
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
Date: 1720
"His Fancy still awake; the roving Guest / Usurps the Throne of Reason in his Breast: / Forms great Ideas, and religious Schemes, / A busy mime, and floats in golden Dreams."
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
Date: 1720, 1735
A banker's soul may be "Weigh'd in the Ballance, and found Light."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: 1721
"My Heart do's like soft Wax relent, / And midst my Bowels flow"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1721
" Oh! seal me, stamp me on thy tender Mind, / And leave the strong Impression deep behind."
preview | full record— Croxall, Samuel (1688/9-1752); Nestor Ironside
Date: 1721
" And see how Nature, bountiful and kind, / Stamps the Paternal Image on his Mind"
preview | full record— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)