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Date: 1737
One shouldn't "dread th' Effects of all their treach'rous Arts, / Their boasted Stratagems to conquer Hearts"
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1737
"Yet when my trembling Soul's dislodg'd, wou'd be / No Room of State within the Grave for me."
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1737 (also 1738, 1743, reprinted 1754)
"Curst with such souls of base alloy, / As can possess, but not enjoy, / Debarr'd the pleasure to impart / By av'rice, sphincter of the heart, / Who wealth, hard earn'd by guilty cares, / Bequeath untouch'd to thankless heirs."
preview | full record— Green, Matthew (1696-1737)
Date: 1737 (also 1738, 1743, reprinted 1754)
"But, if dull fogs invade the head, / That mem'ry minds not what is read."
preview | full record— Green, Matthew (1696-1737)
Date: 1737 (also 1738, 1743, reprinted 1754)
"In rainy days keep double guard, / Or spleen will surely be too hard, / Which, like those fish by sailors met, / Flies highest, while its wings are wet."
preview | full record— Green, Matthew (1696-1737)
Date: 1737 (also 1738, 1743, reprinted 1754)
"Fain would he see some distant scene / Suggested by his restless spleen, / And fancy's telescope applies / With tinctur'd glass to cheat his eyes."
preview | full record— Green, Matthew (1696-1737)
Date: 1737 (also 1738, 1743, reprinted 1754)
"Here nymphs from hollow oaks relate / The dark decrees and will of fate, / And dreams beneath the spreading beach / Inspire, and docile fancy teach; / While, soft as breezy breath of wind, / Impulses rustle thro' the mind."
preview | full record— Green, Matthew (1696-1737)
Date: 1737
"Her lovely image, on his mind impress'd, / Had fix'd her empire in his yielding breast."
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1737
"But oh! what anguish did his soul invade, / When he was told, the lov'd enchanting maid / At Isis holy shrine devoutly bow'd, / A virgin priestess to the goddess vow'd?"
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1737
"Some heav'nly being had prepar'd his thought, / And on his heart the kind impression wrought."
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
