Date: April 18, 1721
"I told her, from your Childhood you was wont / On any great Surprize, but chiefly then / When cause of Sorrow bore it Company, / To have your Passion shake the Seat of Reason, / A momentary Ill, which soon blew o'er."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1722
"Vertues, and Vices, are to Realms confin'd: / And, Climates give a Tincture to the Mind."
preview | full record— Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)
Date: 1723, 1739-40
"Let's join our Hearts then, and seal them with a Kiss"
preview | full record— Bellamy, Daniel, the Elder (b. 1687)
Date: February 22, 1723
"If a single thought / Were tinctur'd with disloyalty, this hand / Shou'd pierce my heart to drive the rebel out."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
"No, my dear Roman! nothing can deface / Thy image from thy virgin-widow's breast; / Th' inviolable band of strong desire / Shall ever join our souls!"
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
"My favours shall deface the memory / Of past afflictions: on a soul secure / In native innocence, or grief or joy / Shou'd make no deeper prints than air retains; / Where fleet alike the vulture and the dove, / And leave no trace."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
"Nature on their unpolish'd marble prints / Much tenderer sentiments, than some can boast / Who call them barbarous."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
"Can the Queen / Pierce to the close recesses of the soul? / Are thoughts there visible, like children's toys / Kept in a chrystal case?"
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: 1723, 1740
"My Tongue has slipp'd, and quite deceiv'd my Heart, / That melts like Wax before your hottest Anger"
preview | full record— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)
Date: 1724
"But what is conscience?--a thin empty name, / That terrifies, like ghosts, by fancy rais'd."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)