Date: 1747
"These shall the fury Passions tear, / The vultures of the mind, / Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, / And Shame that skulks behind."
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Date: 1747-8
Imaginations may be "un-reined"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"Then how my heart began again to play its pug's tricks!"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"The window was open. Away the troublesome bosom-visiter [Conscience], the intruder, is flown."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1747-8
"Each mole-hill thought swells to a huge Olympus; / While we, fantastic dreamers, heave and puff, / And sweat with our imagination's weight."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1749
People may "Bridle their passions and direct their will"
preview | full record— Stepney, George (1663-1707)
Date: 1749
"These were Esteem and Pity; for sure the most outragiously rigid among her Sex will excuse her pitying a Man, whom she saw miserable on her own Account; nor can they blame her for esteeming one who visibly from the most honourable Motives, endeavoured to smother a Flame in his own Bosom, which, ...
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: April 1750, 1791
"O what can words, / The weak interpreters of mortal thoughts, / Or what can thoughts (tho' wild of wing they rove / Thro' the vast concave of th'aetherial round) / If to the Heav'n of Heavens they'd win their way / Advent'rous, like the birds of night they're lost, / And delug'd in the flood of ...
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: April 1750, 1791
"Tho' gratitude were bless'd with all the pow'rs / Her bursting heart cou'd long for, tho' the swift, / The firey-wing'd imagination soar'd / Beyond ambition's wish--yet all were vain / To speak him as he is, who is INEFFABLE."
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