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Date: 1703
"A Flood of Tenderness comes o'er my Soul; / I cannot speak!--I love! forgive! and pity thee."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1703
"By my strong Grief, my Heart ev'n melts within me."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1706
"'Till then be kind, and leave me to my self; / Leave me to vent the Fulness of my Breast, / Pour out the Sorrows of my Soul alone, / And sigh my self, if possible, to Peace."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"His Noble Nature, / Tho' warm, tho' fierce, and prone to sudden Passions, / Is just and gentle, when the torrent Rage / Ebbs out, and cooler Reason comes again."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1708
"Passions are too hurrying to last; Vapours that start from a Mercurial Brain, whose wild Chimera's flush the lighter Faculties, which tir'd i'th' vain pursuit of fancy'd Pleasures."
preview | full record— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)
Date: 1713
"Alas, thy Story melts away my Soul."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1714
"Unhappy Sex! Whose easie yielding Temper / Gives Way to every Appetite alike; / Each gust of Inclination, uncontroul'd, / Sweeps thro' their Souls, and sets 'em in an uproar; / Each Motion of their Heart rises to Fury, / And Love in their weak Bosoms is a Rage / As terrible as Hate, and as destr...
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1714
"But tho' my Mouth be dumb, my Heart shall thank you; / And when it melts before the Throne of Mercy, / Mourning, and bleeding, for my past Offences, / My fervent Soul shall breath one Prayer for you."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1715
"Their old Hearts melted in 'em as she spoke, / And Tears ran down upon their silver Beards."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1715
"The Man's Passion is now at the Top, and Things cannot long stand at the Top; it is an old Observation I have made, that when the Pot boils over, it cools it self:--But then the Fat's all in the Fire--Ay! that is not as it shou'd be--she shou'd encourage him a little, or the hot Fit will be over...
preview | full record— Bullock, Christopher (bap. 1690, d. 1722)
