Date: w. before 1717? (first published 1989)
"But he who servily can wish or grieve / For that which is not in his powr to give / Casts off the firmness wch shoud make him great / the strongest shield we can oppose to fate / letts inclinations grow & thus he weaves / Those very bonds which keep us passions slaves."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1718
"There's not room in a Woman's Heart for more than one Object at a time."
preview | full record— Molloy, Charles (d. 1767)
Date: 1718
"Pierce this treacherous Heart, which Vice so long has held in Chains."
preview | full record— Molloy, Charles (d. 1767)
Date: w. 1713-1718?, 1989
"If I cant have the pleasure to conquer yr heart / I shall have some at least in complaining."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1719, 1720
"For, says he, PUNS are like so many Torch-Lights in the Head, that give the Soul a very distinct View of those Images, which she before seemed to groap after as if she had been imprisoned in a Dungeon."
preview | full record— Sheridan, Thomas (1687-1738)
Date: 1720
"Severity makes more Hypocrites than any Sort of Discipline; streight lacing the Body may make us good Shapes, but there's no streight lacing our Minds."
preview | full record— Shadwell, Charles (fl. 1692-1720)
Date: 1720
"Nay more, when thou art dead, I won't leave thy Soul in Quiet--for I will go streight to thy House, break open they Chests, and scatter thy Gold and Silver, which is thy Soul"
preview | full record— Molloy, Charles (d. 1767)
Date: 1720
"But Friendship is the Mirror of the Mind, which lays open to us all our Faults"
preview | full record— Shadwell, Charles (d. 1726)
Date: 1720, 1735
A banker's soul may be "Weigh'd in the Ballance, and found Light."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: 1722
"I met her this morning in a new manteau and petticoat, not a bit worse for her lady's wearing, and she has always new thoughts and new airs with new clothes."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)