Date: 1693
"Grief clouds my sadder Mind, when it should be, / As free as unconcern'd, as calm as she."
preview | full record— Hawkshaw, Benjamin (1671/2-1738)
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)