Date: 1633
"The mind, you know is like a Table-Book"
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Date: 1733
"And happy He, that with prevailing Art / Could gain a Conquest o'er her Virgin Heart"
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1734
"Of brass his heart who durst explore,-- / Lock'd up in triple brass, and more,"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1737
"Yet when my trembling Soul's dislodg'd, wou'd be / No Room of State within the Grave for me."
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1743
"With pleased attention midst his scenes we find / Each glowing thought that warms the female mind"
preview | full record— Collins, William (1721-1759)
Date: 1743
"Where'er we turn, by Fancy charmed, we find / Some sweet illusion of the cheated mind. / Oft, wild of wing, she calls the soul to rove / With humbler nature in the rural grove."
preview | full record— Collins, William (1721-1759)
Date: 1743
The wounded heart may be supported by songs and healed by morals
preview | full record— Collins, William (1721-1759)
Date: w. 1736, 1749
"Why should I drag along this life I hate, / Without one thought to mitigate the weight? / Whence this mysterious bearing to exist, / When every joy is lost, and every hope dismissed? / In chains and darkness wherefore should I stay, / And mourn in prison, while I keep the key?"
preview | full record— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)