Date: 1714
"I hold it certain, / This puling whining Harlot rules his Reason, / And prompts his Zeal for Edward's Bastard Brood."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1714
"If she have such Dominion o'er his Heart, / And turn it at her Will; you rule her Fate, / And should, by Inference and apt Deduction, / Be Arbiter of his."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1714
"Have you examin'd / Into your inmost Heart, and try'd at leisure / The several secret Springs that move the Passions? / Has Mercy fix'd her Empire there so sure, / That Wrath and Vengeance never may return?"
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1714
"Thus when Revenge does Reason's Scepter rule, / It turns the Wisest Statesman to a Fool"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1714, 1735
"Alas! 'tis so--'tis fix'd the secret Dart; / I feel the Tyrant [Love] ravaging my Heart."
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1715-1720
"Let great Achilles, to the Gods resign'd, / To Reason yield the Empire o'er his Mind."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
"Homer draws him (as we have seen) soft of Speech, the natural Quality of an amorous Temper; vainly gay in War as well as Love; with a Spirit that can be surprized and recollected, that can receive Impressions of Shame or Apprehension on the one side, or of Generosity and Courage on the ot...
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
"Let great Achilles, to the Gods resign'd, / To Reason yield the Empire o'er his Mind."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715
"Thy gentle Temper, / Is form'd with Passions mixt in due Proportion, / Where no one overbears nor plays the Tyrant, / But join in Nature's Business, and thy Happiness: / While mine disdaining Reason and her Laws, / Like all thou can'st imagine wild and furious, / Now drive me head-long on, now w...
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1715
"Reason's Efforts are vain, I am my Passion's Slave, and cannot quit this scornful Woman."
preview | full record— Bullock, Christopher (bap. 1690, d. 1722)