Date: w. 1702, 1713
"Fair Ideas in full Glory shine, / Eternal Models of exalted Parts, / The Pride of Minds, and Conquerors of Hearts."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1713
"Imperial Reason keeps her awful Throne, / Above the Tumult reigns unmov'd alone: / At her Command intestine Discords cease, / And all th' inferiour Pow'rs lie hush'd in Peace."
preview | full record— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)
Date: 1714, 1735
" What cruel Dæmon haunts my tortur'd Mind? / Sure, if 'twere Love, I shou'd th'Invader find;"
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1715-1720
"Vain Dreams of Conquest" may swell the haughty Mind
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
" The haughtiest Hearts at length their Rage resign, / And Gifts can conquer ev'ry Soul but thine."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715
In death "all to the same Dungeon are confin'd" and "No Busie Thoughts invade the Labouring Mind"
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1717
Horror may invade the mind
preview | full record— Dillon, Wentworth, 4th Earl of Roscommon (1637-1685)
Date: 1717
"Bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind, / The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1717
Beauty is not free from imposture: "Our shining Picts with borrow'd lustre reign, / And o'er our hearts felonious conquests gain"
preview | full record— Welsted, Leonard (1688-1747)
Date: w. 1713-1718?, 1989
"If I cant have the pleasure to conquer yr heart / I shall have some at least in complaining."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)