Date: December 13, 1700; 1701
"I ne'er saw any yet so fair! such Sweetness in her Look! such Modesty! if we may think the Eye the window to the Heart, she has a thousand treasur'd Virtues there."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1702
"But then reflecting that I might possibly o'er-hear some part of their Discourse, and by that judge of Leonora's Thoughts, I rein'd my Passion in; and by the help of an advancing Buttress, which kept me from their sight, I learnt the black Conspiracy."
preview | full record— Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)
Date: 1702
Some Objects may "promote our Joy, are bright to the Eye, or stamp upon our Minds, Pleasure, and Self-satisfaction"
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1702
"Nay, yet more, / My Soul seems pleas'd to take acquaintance with thee, / As if ally'd to thine: Perhaps 'tis Sympathy / Of honest Minds; Like Strings wound up in Musick, / Where by one touch, both utter the same Harmony."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1702
"Witness the Blood / Which thro' successive Hero's Veins ally'd / To our Greek Emperors, roll'd down to me, / Feeds the bright Flame of Glory in my Heart."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1702
"When, as my Soul confest its Flame, and su'd / In moving Sounds for Pity, she frown'd rarely, / But, blushing, heard me tell the gentle Tale."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1702
"But, Oh! 'tis past; and I will charge Remembrance / To banish the fond Image from my Soul."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1702
"Nature asserts her Empire in her Heart, / And kindly takes the faithful Lover's part."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1702
"Why hangs my Heart thus heavy / Like Death within my Bosom?"
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1702
"In Adversity / The Mind grows tough by buffeting the Tempest; / Which, in Success dissolving, sinks to Ease, / And loses all her Firmness."
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