Date: 1715-1720
"Hector's Mind fluctuates every way, he is calling a Council in his own Breast, and consulting what Method to pursue."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715
"No Beams of softning Pity touch thy Breast, / Too vile a Cell to harbour such a Guest."
preview | full record— Brown, Thomas (bap. 1663, d. 1704)
Date: 1715
"Revenge [may be] so great a Stranger to her Breast"
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)
Date: 1715
"Soon as her crowding Thoughts cou'd find a Vent, / I know, she said, that you from Heav'n are sent:"
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)
Date: 1715-1720
"[W]hat a Crowd of terrible Ideas in this one Simile!"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
"Tis the natural Discharge of a vast Imagination, heated in its Progress, and giving itself vent in this Crowd of Images"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715
"Can hateful Envy, that uneasie Guest / Of vulgar Souls, invade the Royal Breast, / And rob great Saul himself of Peace and Rest?"
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)
Date: 1717
"Yet he no rustic clownishness profest, / Nor was soft love a stranger to his breast"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1718
"For from most Bodies, Dick, You know,/ Some little Bits ask Leave to flow; / And, as thro' these Canals They roll, / Bring up a Sample of the Whole. / Like Footmen running before Coaches, / To tell the Inn, what Lord approaches."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1718
"A thousand little Nerves She sends / Quite to our Toes, and Fingers Ends; / And These in Gratitude again / Return their Spirits to the Brain; / In which their Figure being printed / (As just before, I think, I hinted) / Alma inform'd can try the Case, / As She had seen upon the Place. // Thus, w...
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)