Date: 1712
If "Idola from foul Figures rise, / Their roughness Shocks the Soul, and Wounds the Eyes. / And, as with Spears, which grow from bladed Corn, / Invade the Mind, and make the Senses mourn"
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (1675-1713); Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718); Quillet, Claudius (fl.1640-1656)
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: 1737
"Regard thy Powers, O Man! nor heed thy Size: / In piercing Reason thy Advantage lies; / Reason that conquers all, and rules the Skies."
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)
Date: 1737
"Alas! by diff'rent Passions I'm oppress'd! / Fierce Love and Hate contend within my Breast."
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)
Date: 1737
"Hence Wrath and Rage their ready Minds invade, / And Want could ev'ry Wickedness perswade."
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)
Date: 1741-2
A "wounded conscience" may throb beneath a star, and shake one's "fabric with intestine war"
preview | full record— Gilbert, Thomas (bap. 1713, d. 1766)
Date: 1757-9
Peace and war alternately succeed in the lover
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]
Date: 1761
"The image of Eloisa, never to be erased from my mind, shall be my shield, and render my soul invulnerable."
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778); Kenrick, William (1729/30-1779)