Date: 1723

The "conscious Pow'r, the Judge within," may "With Frowns and awful Menaces begin / To fill [one] with Remorse and secret Fear"

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

Date: February 22, 1723

"If a single thought / Were tinctur'd with disloyalty, this hand / Shou'd pierce my heart to drive the rebel out."

— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)

Date: February 22, 1723

"Blind fortune that bestows / The perishable toys of wealth and pow'r, / At random oft resumes them, pleas'd to make / An hurricane of life: but the firm mind / Safe on exalted virtue reigns sedate, / Superior to the giddy whirls of fate."

— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)

Date: February 22, 1723

"Prepare with every smiling grace t'adorn / The festival; and let victorious joy / Chase every black idea from thy mind: / For ever banish from thy gentle breast / All cares, except the pleasing cares of love!"

— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)

Date: February 22, 1723

"Alas! the pain / We feel, whene'er we dispossess the soul / Of that tormenting tyrant [love], far exceeds / The rigor of his rule."

— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)

Date: February 22, 1723

"With reason quell / That haughty passion; treat it as your slave: / Resume the monarch!"

— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)

Date: February 22, 1723

"At this late hour, / What discord breaks the virtuous harmony, / Which wont to reign within thy pious breast?"

— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)

Date: 1723, 1725

"At first he was seized with a Lethargy of Thought; a kind of lazy Stupefaction hung on his Spirits, which every Day encreasing, at last overwhelm'd the Throne of Reason."

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1723, 1725

"Beauclair was more gallant; and believing that if ever he desir'd any greater Testimonies of the Conquest he had made of her Heart, than what her Eyes declar'd, now was the Time to obtain them."

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1723, 1725

"When once a Woman has disposed of every Thing in her Power to give, it must be Softness only, and fond Compliance with her Lover's Will, that can maintain her Empire o'er his Heart."

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)