Date: 1707
"Lost in Labyrinths of Love, / My Breast with hoarded Vengeance burns, / While Fear and Rage / With Hope engage, / And rule my wav'ring Soul by turns."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1707
"See, see, he smiles amidst his Trance, / And shakes a visionary Lance, / His Brain is fill'd with loud Alarms, / Shouting Armies, clashing Arms, / The softer Prints of Love deface; / And Trumpets sound in ev'ry Trace."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"Not all those warring Elements we fear, / Are equal to the inborn Tempest here; / Fierce as the Thoughts which mortal Man controul, / When Love and Rage contend, and tear the lab'ring Soul."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"Oh let me sink, / With all these warring Thoughts together in me, / Blushing to Earth, and hide the vast Confusion."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"That wrathful Frown, / Your Eyes fierce glancing, and your changing Visage, / Now pale as Death, now purpled o'er with Flame, / Give me to know your Passions are at odds, / And your whole Soul is up in Arms within."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1709
A Lady wounded in love may "strive to conquer Hearts, / And triumph o'er their Pain"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1709
A form may be shot into the soul
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Date: 1709
"Her Mind, 'tis true, the Tyrant [Sorrow] did invade, / But her all-bright'ning Eyes cou'd fear no Shade."
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Date: 1709
"[W]ould not one believe her Charms are sufficient to conquer a thousand Hearts?"
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1709
"That fatal Night the Duke felt hostile Fires in his Breast, Love was entred with all his dreadful Artillery; he took possession in a moment of the Avenues that lead to the Heart! neither did the resistance he found there serve for any thing but to make his Conquest more illustrious."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)