Date: 1723, 1740
"Those slighted Favours which cold Nymphs dispense, / Mere common Counters of the Sense, / Defective both in Mettle and in Measure, / A Lover's Fancy coins into a Treasure."
preview | full record— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)
Date: 1723, 1740
"My Tongue has slipp'd, and quite deceiv'd my Heart, / That melts like Wax before your hottest Anger"
preview | full record— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)
Date: 1725
"The deep and dark Recesses of the Heart must be penetrated, to discover how Nature is disguis’d into Art, and how Art puts on the Appearance of Nature."
preview | full record— Gally, Henry (bap. 1696, d. 1769)
Date: 1725
"Each Man contains a little World within himself, and every Heart is a new World."
preview | full record— Gally, Henry (bap. 1696, d. 1769)
Date: 1725
"The under Passions may, by their various Operations, cause some Diversity in the Colour and Complexion of the Whole, but 'tis the Master-Passion which must determine the Character."
preview | full record— Gally, Henry (bap. 1696, d. 1769)
Date: 1736
"Upon the whole, then, our organs of sense and our limbs are certainly instruments which the living persons, ourselves, make use of to perceive and move with: there is not any probability that they are any more; nor consequently, that we have any other kind of relation to them, that what we may h...
preview | full record— Butler, Joseph (1692-1752)
Date: 1745
"But thou whose eye, from passion's film refin'd, / Can see true greatness in an honest mind."
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1749
One may give and take "with a gust inexpressible, a kiss of welcome, that my heart rising to my lips, stamp'd with its warmest impression"
preview | full record— Cleland, John (bap. 1710, d. 1789)
Date: 1749
"Yet should thy Soul indulge the gen'rous Heat, / Till captive Science yields her last Retreat / Should Reason guide thee with her brightest Ray, / And pour on misty Doubt resistless Day; / Should no false Kindness lure to loose Delight, / Nor Praise relax, nor Difficulty fright; / Should temptin...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: Tuesday, May 15, 1750
"Nor is fear, the most overbearing and resistless of all our passions, less to be temperated by this universal medicine of the mind."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)