Date: 1713
"Since we have made this Breach in her Heart, my Lad, there is now no fear of gaining the Citadel."
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
Date: 1714
"Oh Jealousie! Thou Bane of pleasing Friendship, / Thou worst Invader of our tender Bosoms; / How does thy Rancour poison all our Softness, / And turn our gentle Natures into Bitterness."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1714, 1735
" What cruel Dæmon haunts my tortur'd Mind? / Sure, if 'twere Love, I shou'd th'Invader find;"
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1715-1720
"Vain Dreams of Conquest" may swell the haughty Mind
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
" The haughtiest Hearts at length their Rage resign, / And Gifts can conquer ev'ry Soul but thine."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715
In death "all to the same Dungeon are confin'd" and "No Busie Thoughts invade the Labouring Mind"
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1717
"Bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind, / The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1717
Beauty is not free from imposture: "Our shining Picts with borrow'd lustre reign, / And o'er our hearts felonious conquests gain"
preview | full record— Welsted, Leonard (1688-1747)
Date: 1717
"Against my self my rebel Passions arm; / They bound within my Breast to meet this Victor."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1718
"Repeated Prostitutions conquer Shame, / Assure the Face, and struggling Reason tame."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)