Date: First performed February 17, 1720.
"It wounds my Heart / To think thou follow'st but to share my Ruin."
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1722
One's head and heart may be "on the rack" about something worrisome
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: w. 1766, 1797
"Has my moral pencil / So oft portray'd the forms of truth and falshood, / In their just lineaments, to thy mind's eye"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)