Date: 1715
"Thy gentle Temper, / Is form'd with Passions mixt in due Proportion, / Where no one overbears nor plays the Tyrant, / But join in Nature's Business, and thy Happiness: / While mine disdaining Reason and her Laws, / Like all thou can'st imagine wild and furious, / Now drive me head-long on, now w...
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1715, 1727
"[A]ll the Faculties of my Soul and Body are her Slaves"
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1715
"Love is a generous Volunteer; Lust a Mercenary Slave"
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1715
"Love is a Court of Honour in the Heart"
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1715
Love may be a "scandalous Itching, a Rebellion in the Blood"
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1716
One's head may be "perpetually confounded with the Fumes of Ale and Faction"
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Date: First performed February 17, 1720.
"What were Dominion, Pomp, / The Wealth of Nations, nay of all the World, / The World it self, or what a thousand Worlds, / If weigh'd with Faith unspotted, heav'nly Truth, / Thoughts free from Guilt, the Empire of the Mind, / And all the Triumphs of a God-like Breast / Firm and unmov'd in the gr...
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1722
"Blush rather, that you are a Slave to Passion; / Subservient to the Wildness of your Will; / Which, like a Whirlwind, tears up all your Vertues; / And gives you not the Leisure to consider."
preview | full record— Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)