Date: 1705
A bullet may efface "The num'rous Lodgings, which did entertain / All Mem'ry's crowded Guests, and Fancy's aeiry Train."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1706
"But FANCY, that unease Guest / Still holds a Lodging in our Beast; / She finds or frames Vexations still, / Her self the greatest Plague we feel."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1707
"And while he makes my Soul his Guest, / My Bosom, Lord, shall be thy Rest."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1709
"What Passions in a Parent's Breast debate!"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"The Senses stand around; the Spirits roam / To seize and bring the fleeting Objects home: / Thro' every Nerve and every Pore they pass."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1711
"These active Liquors, which Admission find / Thro' the strait Paths, and leave the coarse behind, / Swift to the inmost Rooms their Passage beat, / And crowd around the Soul's Imperial Seat."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1711
"Obdurate, rarely in your yielding Breast, / You entertain the Beatifick Guest."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1712, 1796
"Her body delicate, wherein enshrin'd, / As in its temple, dwelt a virtuous mind."
preview | full record— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)
Date: w. 1703, 1712
"And all the Furies wake within their Breast."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: w. 1703, 1712
"Returning Thoughts in endless Circles roll, / And thousand Furies haunt his guilty Soul."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)