Date: 1721
"Our Soul, as from a broken Snare / A Bird escapes, is fled."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: April 18, 1721
"Oh, what a Pain to think! when every Thought, / Perplexing Thought in Intricacies runs, / And Reason knits th'inextricable Toil / In which her self is taken. I am lost, / Poor Insect that I am, I am involv'd, / And bury'd in the Web my self have wrought."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: February 22, 1723
"My favours shall deface the memory / Of past afflictions: on a soul secure / In native innocence, or grief or joy / Shou'd make no deeper prints than air retains; / Where fleet alike the vulture and the dove, / And leave no trace."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: 1724
"Those Reflections began to prey upon my Comforts, and lessen the Sweets of my other Enjoyments: They might be said to have gnaw'd a Hole in my Heart before; but now they made a Hole quite thro' it; now they eat into all my pleasant things; made bitter every Sweet, and mix'd my Sighs with every S...
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1728
"But thro' the Heart / Should Jealousy it's Venom once diffuse, / 'Tis then delightful Misery no more, / But Agony unmixt, incessant Rage, / Corroding every Thought, and blasting all / The Paradise of Love."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1730
"O save me from the tumult of the soul! / From the wild beasts within!"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1732
"He that wants the proper materials of thought, may think and meditate for ever to no purpose: those cobwebs spun by scholars out of their own brains being alike unserviceable, either for use or ornament."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1734
"Hail, holy souls, no more confin'd / To limbs and bones that clog the mind; / Ye have escap'd the snares, and left the chains behind."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1739
"My Heart flutters within me for Fear of him, like a Bird that's hunted in a Cage."
preview | full record— Bellamy, Daniel, the Elder (b. 1687)
Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
"Don't your Heart ake for me? --I am sure mine flutter'd about like a Bird in a Cage new caught."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)