Date: 1715
"Thy gentle Temper, / Is form'd with Passions mixt in due Proportion, / Where no one overbears nor plays the Tyrant, / But join in Nature's Business, and thy Happiness: / While mine disdaining Reason and her Laws, / Like all thou can'st imagine wild and furious, / Now drive me head-long on, now w...
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1715, 1727
"[A]ll the Faculties of my Soul and Body are her Slaves"
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1715
"Love is a generous Volunteer; Lust a Mercenary Slave"
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1715
"Love is a Court of Honour in the Heart"
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1715
Love may be a "scandalous Itching, a Rebellion in the Blood"
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1716
One's head may be "perpetually confounded with the Fumes of Ale and Faction"
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1717
"But, they who have considered with care the foundation and circumstances of their actions, doubt of their freedom, and are even persuaded, that their reason and understanding are slaves that cannot resist the force which carries them along."
preview | full record— Collins, Anthony (1676-1729)
Date: 1718
"Reluctant Reason you'll in Fetters keep, / And lay th' insulting Judge within asleep."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1718
Reason may be "too Young to rule a Flame" (of love)
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1718
"Now, when unbridled Passions use to reign, / While vanquish'd Reason wears the Victor's Chain, / See Pleasure, fair and smiling as the Morn, / (Soft Silks her Limbs, gay Flow'rs her Head adorn) / Which with her Breath perfumes the ambient Air, / While sporting Zephyrs heave her golden Hair, / Mi...
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)