Date: 1719
"She freely gave him up her conquer'd Heart"
preview | full record— Breval, John Durant (1680/81-1738)
Date: 1719
"A thousand Fears invade / And fill my Mind with Pain"
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1719
"Than from this Mind, O! venerable Shade, / Th'Impression be eras'd thy Words have made."
preview | full record— Breval, John Durant (1680/81-1738)
Date: 1719
"So perfect Gold no more excells the Brass, / Than Love of Soul doth Love of Body pass."
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: January 16, 1719
"No, Madam, I say, not that I mean to use my Power, I tell you only what it is, my Heart has broke your Chain, I claim no Right over you."
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1719
"In you he liv'd, with yours his Soul was mixt, / As meeting Streams that flow promiscuous on."
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1720
"Severity makes more Hypocrites than any Sort of Discipline; streight lacing the Body may make us good Shapes, but there's no streight lacing our Minds."
preview | full record— Shadwell, Charles (fl. 1692-1720)
Date: 1720
"But Friendship is the Mirror of the Mind, which lays open to us all our Faults"
preview | full record— Shadwell, Charles (d. 1726)
Date: 1720
"But Adam's Soul being put in his Body, his Brain was a Tabula rasa, as White Paper, had no Impressions in it, but such as either God put in it, or such as came to him by his Senses."
preview | full record— Burnet, Gilbert (1643-1715)
Date: First performed February 17, 1720.
"She animates my Being, / And kindles up my Thoughts to worthy Actions."
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)