Date: 1739
"Thus, thus to be driven out from my own Breast! / To have no Shed, no shelt'ring Nook at Home / To take Reflection in!"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1739
"How looks the Wretch / Whose Heart cries Villain to itself? I'll not / Endure its Batt'ry."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1739
"Ye hallowed Men! / In whom Vice sanctifies, whose Precepts teach / Zeal without Truth, Religion without Virtue, / Who ne'er preach Heav'n but with a downward Eye / That turns your Souls to Dross; who shouting loose / The Dogs of Hell upon us."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1739
"For, O Gustavus, / My Soul is dark, disconsolate and dark; / Sick to the World, and hateful to myself, / I have no Country now."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1739
"I am all / That's left to calm, to sooth his troubled Soul, / To Penitence, to Virtue; and perhaps / Restore the better Empire o'er his Mind, / True Seat of all Dominion."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1739
"O I will / Of private Passions all my Soul divest, / And take my dearer Country to my Breast."
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Date: 1741
"No Window to Her Bosom did we need, / The Goodness there appear'd in ev'ry Deed"
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)
Date: 1741
"Search each his own Breast first, read that with Care, / And mark if no one Crime be written There!"
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)
Date: 1741
"For Thou who, faulty, wrong'st another's Fame, / Howe'er so great and dignify'd thy Name, / The Muse shall drag thee forth to publick Shame; / Pluck the fair Feathers from thy Swan-skin Heart, / And shew thee black and guileful as thou art."
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Date: w. 1732, 1743, 1752
Reason may "fix it's Empire o'er [one's] Heart"
preview | full record— Hammond, James (1710-1742)