Date: 1713
"I've been surprized in an unguarded Hour, / But must not now go back: The Love, that lay / Half smother'd in my Breast, has broke through all / Its weak Restraints, and burn's in its full Lustre, / I cannot, if I wou'd, conceal it from thee."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1714
"I own the glorious Subject fires my Breast, / And my Soul's darling Passion stands confest / Beyond or Love's or Friendship's sacred Band, / Beyond my self I prize my Native Land."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1714
"Thy cruel Scorn had stung me to the Heart, / And set my burning Bosom all in Flames."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)