Date: 1723, 1725
"AS Tapers languish at th' Approach of Day," and as the "Book of Fame" may be "Eraz'd and blotted," "So fully o'er the Soul may a lover's Influence reign, "That not one Rebel-Thought [its] Sway disdains"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1722, 1723
"For Jesus sake, remove not my Distress, / Till free Triumphant Grace shall Reposess / The Vacant Throne; from whence my Sins Depart, / And make a willing Captive of my Heart."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1723, 1740
"My Sister weeping! Tho' her Reason governs, / I judge her Grief for Cassius, by my own."
preview | full record— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)
Date: 1724, 1756
Wit is a "rebel Folly" that must be taught "That 'tis her noblest Conquest to submit"
preview | full record— Tollet, Elizabeth (1694-1754)
Date: 1724
"What a slave is man, when passion masters him?"
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1724
"Nay by the Hate (since Love is now no more) / The fix'd Aversion that usurps your Bosom, / (The native Seat of Gentleness and Pity) / By That and by its Cause, my late Transgression, / So black, so heinous as to shame Remorse, / Indulge that Hate, and give Revenge a loose / In this one Thought,...
preview | full record— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
Date: 1724, 1725
"The old Marquis, whose lawless and ungoverned Passion had occasion'd this Misfortune, still remained in a fixed Posture."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1724
"It is for this Reason, that I have so largely set down the Particulars of the Caresses I was treated with by the Jeweller, and also by this Prince; not to make the Story an Incentive to the Vice, which I am now such a sorrowful Penitent for being guilty of, God forbid any shou'd make so vile a U...
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: Friday, November 6. 1724.
"Where this Passion is Real, It will be the Sovereign of the Mind. It moulds the Soul to its own Purposes; and lends its own Eyes to the Understanding."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: Friday, August 21, 1724
"There are many Capricio's, that must be borne with, from them; but, in all other Cases, my Mind is my Kingdom; I am absolute, and will be so."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)