Date: 1702
"Modesty, that in their Bosom reigns, / Detests and loaths whatever spots or stains"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: 1702
The "true Noble Mind / Conquers a Wrong by Patience, is resign'd / For Vertue's sake to bear, that Reason may / Be Re-enthron'd, and Passion pass away"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: w. 1682, 1702
"Chastity, sits as with awful Grace, / Enthron'd i'th' Heart, and sweetly in the Face / Holds forth its Ensign"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: w. 1678, 1702
"[B]e not over-curious to express / Too much Exactness in an outward Dress; / Lest peevish Passion should too oft prevail, / To banish Reason from its Throne, and vail / Sound Judgment"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: w. 1678, 1702
"[I]n thy Heart reveal / Eternal Life, as the abiding Seal / Of his endeared Love"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: 1778, 1804
"There is some kind and courtly sprite / That o'er the realm of Fancy reigns."
preview | full record— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)
Date: 1785
Jealousy's monsters may hurl "frighted Reason from her throne, / And with her all the charities that wait / To grace her virtuous Court"
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1785
When Passion dwells in the heart it is "Pleasure's court"
preview | full record— Lovibond, Edward (bap. 1723, d. 1775)
Date: 1723
"Thou know'st the secret Soul's imperial Throne / Surrounded with thick Darkness, like thy own, / Where she to all the Senses Audience gives, / Appoints their Tasks, their Messages receives, / And passes Judgement in her Sov'reign Court / On every Envoy's true or false Report / How her sole Nod...
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1642
"The heart of man is the place the Devils dwell in: I feel sometimes a Hell within my self; Lucifer keeps his Court in my breast, Legion is revived in me."
preview | full record— Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682)