Date: February 22, 1723
"If she were yet on earth, where cou'd she find / A nobler palace than a brother's breast?"
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
"Let not your heart, / Where late her beauteous image was inshrin'd, / Be now immur'd with marble from her pray'r!"
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: 1724
"This cold clay cottage is but the soul's prison, / And death, at worst, is but a surly friend, / Who conquers to give liberty."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1730
"Ye Spirits, who reign, / In Cells of the Brain,/ Assume your Chimerical Shapes;/ Make English Hearts glad, / To see Devils run mad!"
preview | full record— Odingsells, Gabriel (1690-1734)
Date: 1730
"[Y]our Heart is like a Coffee-House, where the Beaus frisk in and out, one after another; and you are as little the worse for them, as the other is the better"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1731
"How shall I move, in this dark Maze of Passion!"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: June 1, 1732
"Oh! give me way, come all you Furies, come, / Lodge in th'unfurnish'd Chambers of my Heart, / My Heart which never shall be let again / To any Guest but endless Misery, / Never shall have a Bill upon it more."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1743
"Of what Use is Reason then? Why, of the Use that a Window is to a Man in a Prison, to let him see the Horrors he is confined in; but lends him no Assistance to his Escape"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1759, performed 1776
The soul may be "Snatch'd by the power of music from her cell / Of fleshly thraldom" and feel "herself upborn / On plumes of ecstasy"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1761
"While Frugi liv'd / Thy sorrows kept possession of my heart, / And Love receded from the stronger guest; / Now his dear image rises to my view / So piteously array'd, with such a train / Of tender thoughts assails this shatter'd frame, / That Reason quits her fort, and flies before, / To the las...
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)