Date: February 22, 1723
"Aided by this brave friend, whose soul is steel'd / With dauntless resolution, though the ghosts / Of all her race rise grinning from the tomb, / And in their cause auxiliar furies join; / Intrepid we'll persue our bold career; / Pitch the sure toils, and rouze the fated deer."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
"I thought my heart was arm'd with adamant / Against remorse, but nature fools me now; / A faint cold shiv'ring seizeth every limb."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
"Let not your heart, / Where late her beauteous image was inshrin'd, / Be now immur'd with marble from her pray'r!"
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
"My Queen! my wife! the jewel of my soul!"
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Date: 1723
"Then Clifford, were thy Heart as hard as Steel, / As thou hast shown it flinty by thy Deeds, / I come to pierce it, or to give thee mine."
preview | full record— Cibber, Theophilus (1703-1758)
Date: 1723
"Look on the Boy, / And let his manly Face, which promiseth / Successful Fortune, steel thy melting Heart / To hold thy own, and leave thine own with him."
preview | full record— Cibber, Theophilus (1703-1758)
Date: 1724
"This cold clay cottage is but the soul's prison, / And death, at worst, is but a surly friend, / Who conquers to give liberty."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1730
Love is a "strange unruly Something in the Soul" that "like a Fire once kindled in a Mine, / Can ne'er be thoroughly quench'd"
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)
Date: 1730
The "Charms of Modesty" may "kindle Virtues in the roughest Breast" "like the Sun-beams ripening Gems in Rocks"
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)
Date: 1732
"If there be a Passion pure without Allay, as tender and soft, as violent and strong, you cannot sure miscall it by that Name."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)