Date: 1760, 1850
An "anxious tender air / Proves o'er her heart the conquest won"
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Date: 1760, 1850
"Say, youth, and can'st thou keep secure / Thy heart from conquering beauty's power?"
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: w. c. 1762, 1850
"For love, I fear, corrupts the judge within."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: 1767
"Love has made me stout and strong; /Has given me a charm, / Will not suffer me to fall; / Has steel'd my heart, and nerv'd my arm, / To guard my precious all."
preview | full record— Garrick, David (1717-1779)
Date: 1769
"Vain therefore, and entirely to be rejected, is that Principle published to the World, by a celebrated Philosopher of the last Century, namely, that the Soul in its first created State, has nothing in it, but is a mere Rasa Tabula, or blank Paper."
preview | full record— Law, William (1686-1761)
Date: 1769
"For every Creature of this World, animate or inanimate, is in its Degree, a Microcosm of all the Powers, that are in the great World, of which it is a Part."
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