Date: 1742
"seems the Counterpart by Heav'n design'd / A Symbol and a Warning to Mankind: / As at some Door we find hung out a Sign, / Type of the Monster to be found within"
preview | full record— Hervey, John, second Baron Hervey of Ickworth (1696-1743)
Date: 1742
"Thus on soft sophas in her cave reclin'd, / Slept the fam'd goddess of the leaden mind."
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Date: 1744
"but the French being a people in whom the love of glory is the predominant passion, were more than any other nation charmed with the greatness of that prince's soul."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1744
"[W]e are here idle at present, but shall not long be so; and you will have occasions enough to prove your courage, and gratify that love of arms which, my brother informs me, is the predominant passion of your soul."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1744
Beauty and the charms of a woman's conversation can make a conquest of a lover's heart far more complete than any prospect of interest could have done
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1744
"[Y]our eyes, at first sight, subdued my heart; but your virtue has since made a conquest of my soul"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1744
"[H]eaven will sure excuse the error of an inclination which is born with us, and which not all our reason is of force to conquer"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1744
"[T]he charming image of a city's brightest ornament" may be engraven on the heart by "the god of love ... in characters too indelible ever to be erased"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1744
"Burn this paper, I conjure you, the moment you have read it; but lay the contents of it up in your heart never to be forgotten."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1744
"The witnesses are heard; the cause is o'er; / Let Conscience file the sentence in her court, / Dearer than deeds that half a realm convey."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)