Date: 1719-1720, 1725
"It was plain that the Passion with which Ciamara was animated, sprung not from this last Source; she had seen the charming Count, was taken with his Beauty, and wish'd no farther than to possess his lovely Person, his Mind was the least of her Thoughts, for had she the least Ambition to reign th...
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1719-1720, 1725
"Oh Heaven! cry'd the transported Charlotta, all you have done, or even can do of Unkindness, is by one tender Word made full amends for; see at your Feet (continued she, falling on her Knees) thus in this humble Posture, which best becomes my prostrate Soul, I beg you to accept the Pardon which ...
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1720
"[L]et me imprint upon thy Mind, these my last Words that perhaps thou may'st ever hear from thy affectionate Father: "
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1720
"The extream Idle have no Goust to any Thing but sauntering, which more effectually wearies the Mind and Body than Exercise and Toil."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1720
"Ah vile Heart, more obdurate and harder than Adamant! upon this cruel Anvil was forged the Chains that bound up my unlucky Destiny!"
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1723
In one's Garret-Closet one's Muse may "take Possession": "Poetry being one of those subtle Devils, that if driven out by never so many firm Purposes, good Resolutions, Aversion to that Poverty it intails upon its Adherents; yet it will always return and find a Passage to the Heart, Brain, ...
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1723
"Cease, prithee, Muse, thus to infest / The barren Region of my Breast, / Which never can an Harvest yield, / Since Weeds of Noise o'er-run the Field."
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1723
"Covetousness we may truly call, The Dropsie of the Mind, it being an insatiable Thirst of Gain"
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1723
"Your Letter has so ruffled my whole Interior, that I know not how to write common Sense."
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1723
Her Muse may "And with thy Spells driv'st Griefs away,
Which else wou'd make my Heart their Prey"
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)