Date: 1717
"Were not my Mind enslav'd, were that but free, / How could I brave my Chains?"
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1717
"He has recited all his warlike Deeds, / To make Impression on your grateful Heart.:
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1717
"If once the Queen be parted from the Prince, / The Lustre of a Crown will soon efface / Th'Impression made upon a Woman's Heart."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1717
"My Breast, my inward Soul is glowing hot, / It burns, it rages with devouring Fires."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1719
"Hard was his Heart, inclos'd in Folds of Brass, / Who in a feeble Bark first boldly try'd / The Watry Path and Region of the Seas, /And adverse Winds and swelling Waves defy'd"
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1719-1720, 1725
"'Twould swell this Discourse beyond what I design, to recount her various Starts of Passions, and different Turns of Behaviour, sometimes louder than the Winds, she rav'd! Commanded! Threatned! Then, still as April Showers, or Summer Dews, she wept, and only whisper'd her Complaints, now dissemb...
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1719-1720, 1725
"Ill Genius, or that Devil, Curiosity, ... too much haunts the Minds of Women"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1719-1720, 1725
"But when he consider'd how much he had struggled, and how far he had been from being able to repel Desire, he began to wonder that it cou'd ever enter into his Thoughts, that there was even a Possibility for Woman, so much stronger in her Fancy, and weaker in her Judgment, to suppress the Influe...
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1719-1720, 1725
"I can no longer withstand the too powerful Magick of your Eyes, nor deny any Thing that charming Tongue can ask; but now's the Time to prove your self a Heroe! subdue your self, as you have conquer'd me! be satisfied with vanquishing my Soul, fix there your Throne, but leave my Honour free!"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1719-1720, 1725
"Be Witness for me Heaven! how much I have struggled with this rising passion, even to Madness struggled!--but in vain; the mounting Flame blazes the more, the more I would suppress it--my very Soul's on fire."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)