Date: 1712
"Oh Repose! thou Stranger to the Breasts of Lovers, when wilt thou return to bless me?"
preview | full record— Centlivre [née Freeman; other married name Carroll], Susanna (bap. 1669?, d. 1723)
Date: 1712
"Fancy governs the Blood--and when the Imagination is cloy'd, Reason is a Slave to Appetite-- the despotic Ruler of our Souls and Bodies."
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1712
"[W]hen the Imagination is cloy'd, Reason is a Slave to Appetite"
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1712
Appetite is "the despotic Ruler of our Souls and Bodies
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1712
" But as the Passions of the Human Mind / Must strictly be to Nature's Laws confin'd,"
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1713
"My Memory is pretty well stocked with Terms of Art, and I can talk unintelligibly."
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
Date: 1713
Thus o'er the dying Lamp th'unsteady Flame / Hang's quiv'ring on a Point, leap's off by Fits, / And fall's again, as loath to quit its Hold / --Thou must not go, my Soul still hover's o'er thee / And can't get loose."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1713
"Now, Marcus, now, thy Virtue's on the Proof: / Put forth thy utmost Strength, work ev'ry Nerve, / And call up all thy Father in thy Soul: / To quell the Tyrant Love, and guard thy Heart / On this weak Side, where most our Nature fails, / Would be a Conquest worthy Cato's Son."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1713
"Pardon a weak distemper'd Soul, that swells / With sudden Gusts, and sinks as soon in Calms, / The Sport of Passions."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1713
"Alas, thy Story melts away my Soul."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)