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: 1713, 1729
"Scarce had we pass'd six Bumpers round, / When lo! by wond'rous Pow'r, I found / My Reason had assum'd its Throne, / And all the Fumes of Love were gone."
preview | full record— Carey, Henry (1687-1743)
Date: 1713
"The hero's presence deep impression makes; / The scenes his soul and body re-unite / Furnish a voice, produce him to the sight."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1714
"[F]oul Reproches ignominious Stain, / Sate deep engraven in his fearfull Heart,"
preview | full record— Croxall, Samuel (1688/9-1752); Nestor Ironside
Date: 1714
"What iron Breast so hard that can endure / To work such Spight on Vertuous Innocence?"
preview | full record— Croxall, Samuel (1688/9-1752); Nestor Ironside
Date: 1714, 1723
"Tormenting Doubts my troubled Soul perplex, / But my steel'd Breast no certain Fears can vex."
preview | full record— Hughes, Jabez (1685-1731)
Date: 1714, 1787
A king may seek "no Empire but in English hearts"
preview | full record— Welsted, Leonard (1688-1747)
Date: 1713-1714
"Who wrote all this--Who more than this designd / All fine impressions of Celestial mind."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1714
"Thus when Revenge does Reason's Scepter rule, / It turns the Wisest Statesman to a Fool"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
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)