Date: 1781
"Pardon me, madam, his heart was not only free from that lady's chains, but absolutely captivated by another."
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1718
"O when shall my glad Soul releast / From these uneasy Chains of Clay, / To the bright Regions of the Blest / Wing with a Lover's Speed her Way?"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1718
"My simple System shall suppose, / That Alma enters at the Toes; / That then She mounts by just Degrees / Up to the Ancles, Legs, and Knees: / Next, as the Sap of Life does rise, / She lends her Vigor to the Thighs: / And, all these under-Regions past,/ She nestles somewhere near the Waste."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1718, 1747
"A piece of sculpture admirably wrought is put out to view, but, to preserve it against the injuries of the weather, or for some other reason, is varnished over. Every body extols the artist, and is pleased with his work; and yet no one sees that which was the immediate subject of his art, being ...
preview | full record— Grove, Henry (1684-1738)
Date: 1718, 1720
"For Love's my constant Guest, / And reigns a Lordly Tyrant in my Breast."
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
Date: 1718, 1720
"Love does my ev'ry other Thought controul, / And is the Master-Passion of my Soul."
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
Date: 1718
Reason may be "too Young to rule a Flame" (of love)
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1718
"When first to Think your active Mind essay'd, / And young Ideas in your Fancy play'd, / While dawning Reason's unexperienc'd Ray / Drew a faint Scetch of Intellectual Day, / Your Parents, who the Laws of Heav'n revere, / And make Immortal Bliss their pious Care, / Assiduous strove by mild Instru...
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1718
"Knowledge Divine they by degrees bestow'd, / And with blest Seed your Heart industrious sow'd, / Whence verdant Issues soon began to shoot; / A Bloom ensu'd, that promis'd generous Fruit."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1718
"Drawn by their Pray'r, from Heav'n descending Dews / Cheer the fair Plant, and Heat Divine infuse: / While watchful they destroy'd the springing Weeds, / Baneful to Virtue, which our Bosom breeds, / Nature's spontaneous Growth, that no Assistant needs."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)