Date: 1719
One may have "several times loud Calls from [his] Reason and [his] more composed Judgment to go home"
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1719
"She freely gave him up her conquer'd Heart"
preview | full record— Breval, John Durant (1680/81-1738)
Date: 1719
"A thousand Fears invade / And fill my Mind with Pain"
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1719
"Than from this Mind, O! venerable Shade, / Th'Impression be eras'd thy Words have made."
preview | full record— Breval, John Durant (1680/81-1738)
Date: 1719
"So perfect Gold no more excells the Brass, / Than Love of Soul doth Love of Body pass."
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1719
"The Absence of an old Mistress makes room for a new one--Therefore I have blotted her from my Fancy, like a Painter that strikes one form out of his Cloth, to lay in another."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1719
One may be "Beneath a spreading Poplar's Shade, / By no uneasy Passions press'd, (Which now in Crowds insult my Breast)"
preview | full record— Pack, Richardson (1682-1742)
Date: 1719-25
"A child, which is incapable of resisting grace, and is as it were a rasa tabula before God, affords a lively representation of that which grace is able to effect even in the heart of an old sinner."
preview | full record— Quesnel, Pasquier (1634-1719); Russel, Richard (1685-1756)
Date: 1719
"He forms our generals for the field, / With all their dreadful skill; / Gives them his awful sword to wield, / And makes their hearts of steel."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1719
"[N]ay, they were not subjected to so many Distempers and Uneasinesses either of Body or Mind, as those were, who by vicious Living, Luxury and Extravagancies on one Hand, or by hard Labour, want of Necessaries, and mean or insufficient Diet on the other Hand, bring Distempers upon themselves by ...
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)