Date: 1703
"If it be so, this is our last Farewel, / And these the parting Pangs which Nature feels, / When Anguish rends the Heart-strings--Oh! my Daughter."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1703
"Nothing but Blood can make the Expiation, / And cleanse the Soul from inbred, deep Pollution."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1704
"Who then wou'd court the Pomp of guilty Power, / When the Mind sickens at the weary Shew, / And flies to temporary Death for Ease."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1706
"'Till then be kind, and leave me to my self; / Leave me to vent the Fulness of my Breast, / Pour out the Sorrows of my Soul alone, / And sigh my self, if possible, to Peace."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1706
"Behold that! that!--more dreadful than Medusa, / It drives my Soul back to her inmost Seats, / And freezes every stiff'ning Limb to Marble."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1707
"See, see, he smiles amidst his Trance, / And shakes a visionary Lance, / His Brain is fill'd with loud Alarms, / Shouting Armies, clashing Arms, / The softer Prints of Love deface; / And Trumpets sound in ev'ry Trace."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"Oh Seofrid! do'st thou not wonder much, / And pity my weak Temper, when thou seest me / Thus in a Moment chang'd from Hot to Cold, / My active Fancy glowing now with Hopes, / Anon thus drooping; Death in my pale Visage, / My Heart, and my chill Veins, all freezing with Despair."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1709?
"And this firm Vow for mutual Life shall stand, / Irrevocably seal'd with Heart and Hand."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: May 12, 1709
"But then I was encourag'd by Reflecting, that Lelius and Scipio, the two greatest Men in their Time, among the Romans, both for Political and Military Virtues, in the height of their important Affairs, thought the Perusal and Improving of Terence's Comedies the noblest way of Unbinding their Min...
preview | full record— Centlivre [née Freeman; other married name Carroll], Susanna (bap. 1669?, d. 1723)
Date: May 12, 1709
"No, Mistriss, 'tis your High-fed, Lusty, Rambling, Rampant Ladies---that are troubl'd with the Vapours; 'tis your Ratifia, Persico, Cynamon, Citron, and Spirit of Clary, cause such Swi---m---ing in the Brain, that carries many a Guinea full-tide to the Doctor."
preview | full record— Centlivre [née Freeman; other married name Carroll], Susanna (bap. 1669?, d. 1723)