Date: 1696
"But 'tis a pleasure more than life can give, / That with unconquer'd Passion to the last, / You struggle still, and fain wou'd hold me to you."
preview | full record— Southerne, Thomas (1659-1746)
Date: 1696
"O! that we cou'd incorporate, be one, / One Body, as we have been long one Mind: / That blended so, we might together mix, / And losing thus our Beings to the World, / Be only found to one anothers Joys."
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Date: 1699
"My Friendship even yet does balance Passion; but throw in the least grain more of an affront, and by Heaven you turn the Scale."
preview | full record— Farquhar, George (1676/7-1707)
Date: 1700
"View your own Charms, Madam, then judge my Passion."
preview | full record— Farquhar, George (1676/7-1707)
Date: 1700
"This Commission, Madam, was my Pasport to the Fair; adding a nobleness to my Passion, it stampt a value on my Love"
preview | full record— Farquhar, George (1676/7-1707)
Date: 1700
"I cannot view you, Madam: For when you speak, all the Faculties of my charm'd Soul crowd to my attentive Ears; desert my Eyes, which gaze insensibly"
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Date: 1702
Some Objects may "promote our Joy, are bright to the Eye, or stamp upon our Minds, Pleasure, and Self-satisfaction"
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1702
"O Woman, Woman, of Artifice created! whose Nature, even distracted, has a Cunning: In vain let Man his Sense, his Learning boast, when Womans Madness over-rules his Reason."
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Date: 1704
"Who then wou'd court the Pomp of guilty Power, / When the Mind sickens at the weary Shew, / And flies to temporary Death for Ease."
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Date: 1706
Reason may still keep "its Throne, but it nods a little"
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