Date: 1661
"For when the outward body doth consume, / In Hell such take their Hell-prepared room, / Their souls there having some such shape, or hue / Of beasts, whose actions they inclined to"
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1703, 1718
One's breast may become "a Den of salvage Passions, left / Without a Keeper, loose and unconfin'd"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1715
"Shall thy Soul / Still scorn the World, still flie the Joys that court / Thy blooming Beauty, and thy tender Youth? / Still shall she soar on Contemplation's Wing, / And mix with nothing meaner than the Stars; / As Heaven and Immortality alone / Were Objects worthy to employ her Faculties."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1716
"Their Conscience is a Worm within, / That gnaws them Night and Day."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1719-1720, 1725
"A most susceptible and tender Heart? -- Yes, you may feel it throb, it beats against my Breast, like an imprison'd Bird, and fain would burst it's Cage! to fly to you, the Aim of all its Wishes!"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1719-1720, 1725
"Nor was he less dissolv'd in Rapture, both their Souls seem'd to take Wing together, and left their Bodies motionless, as unworthy to bear a Part in their more elevated Bliss."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: June 1751, 1752
"Thou [Eagle] servant of almighty JOVE, / Who, free and swift as thought, could'st rove / To the bleak north's extremest goal."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: June 1751, 1752
"Thou [Eagle] type of wit and sense confin'd, / Cramp'd by the oppressors of the mind, / Who study downward on the ground."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1765, 1770
"When health and vigour swell'd my youthful veins, / Lust drew my carriage, Folly held the reins."
preview | full record— Thompson, Edward (1738-1786)
Date: 1794
"The slightest breath of dishonour would have stung him to the very soul"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)