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...
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Date: 1715
"My Soul is up in Arms, my injur'd Honour, / Impatient of the Wrong, calls for Revenge."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1722
"The disappointed advocate, finding she had so unexpected a support, on cooler thoughts descended to a composition, which I, without her knowledge, secretly discharged."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1722
"You say this because I wrung you to the heart when I touched your guilty conscience about Judy"
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1722
"Have I then at last a father's sanction on my love? His bounteous hand to give and make my heart a present worthy of Bevil's generosity?"
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Date: 1722
"Vertues, and Vices, are to Realms confin'd: / And, Climates give a Tincture to the Mind."
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Date: 1797
" For, Cupid, well thou know'st, the tender soul, / That Poesy inspires, is very wax / To Beauty's piercing ray"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1797
"[M]ark it well, / And stamp the awful moral on your souls"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: w. 1766, 1797
" His youth, his comeliness, his country too, / Will stamp him very Curan in her heart"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)