Date: 1732
"Thus from your eyes united beams conspire, / To kindle in our souls a pleasing fire;"
preview | full record— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)
Date: June 1, 1732
"Oh! I am all on Fire, thou lovely Wench, / Torrents of Joy my burning Soul must quench, / Reiterated Joys!"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1732
"Distrest by a confused Medley of thinking, she threw herself carelesly on a Couch, where amid a Chaos of Reflection, she slept, if, we can properly be said to sleep, (when the Mind fir'd by warring Passions, dreams 'em o'er again) the Chamber Door had but negligently fell too, for the unthinking...
preview | full record— Boyd, Elizabeth (fl. 1727-1745)
Date: 1733
"[S]prightly Wit, that all admire," may be "an unlicens'd lawless Fire"
preview | full record— Chandler, Mary (1687-1745)
Date: 1735, 1745
"And Fancy's Fire with Judgment's Temper cools."
preview | full record— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)
Date: 1735, 1763
"Does mean self-love contract each social aim? / Here publick transports shall thy soul inflame."
preview | full record— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)
Date: 1736
"THOU, matur'd by glad Hesperian Suns, / Tobacco, Fountain pure of limpid Truth, / That looks the very Soul; whence pouring Thought / Swarms all the Mind; absorpt is yellow Care, / And at each Puff Imagination burns."
preview | full record— Browne, Isaac Hawkins (1705-1760)
Date: 1736
"That Ypre, which inspires the Lust of arbitrary Sway, now twisted its envenom'd Tail round the Heart of Eovaai; and, in an instant, erased all the Maxims the wise Eojaeu had endeavoured to establish there: so easy is it for the best Natures to be perverted, when Example rouses up the Sparks of s...
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1736
"She at first excused herself as being no Proficient in the Art; but he would not be denied: and as she could do nothing which had not in it a peculiar Grace, the Sweetness of her Motions, join'd to the Liberties the Example of others seem'd to authorize him to take with her, added new Fires to h...
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1739
"Those gifts for nobler purposes assign'd, / To raise the thoughts, and moralize the mind; / The chaste delights of virtues to inspire, / And warm the bosom with seraphic fire; / Sublime the passions, lend devotion wings, / And celebrate the first great cause of things."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)