Date: February 22, 1723
"Heav'ns! at the sight of that celestial face, / Each savage passion from the soul retires; / As wolves forsake the fold, when first the sun / Flames o'er the eastern hills."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
"Vouchsafe thy wretched lord a last embrace; / Whose soul is ready wing'd to wait on thine."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: 1724
"My lord, this seems th' extravagance of passion! / When anger rushes, unrestrain'd, to action, / Like a hot steed, it stumbles in its way!"
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1724
"Tho' the soft dove brood, gall-less, o'er your breast, / Yet let the wary serpent arm your mind."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1724
"When all at once / A thousand anxious Thoughts that slept by Day, / Swarm'd in my Brain, 'till it resembled Hell, / Hot, dark and hot: my sick Imagination, / Assisted by the Shades of Night, would give / A gloomy turn to each Idea there."
preview | full record— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
Date: 1726
"Ha, ha, ha, he is shaken, my dear Ringwood; this Man of Depth and Inquiry; he is shaken; his Reason, like an ill-managed Horse, starts under him: What is this haughty Guide of imperious Man, this sufficient Word, Wisdom."
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1728
"My Heart was so free, / It rov'd like the Bee, / 'Till Polly my Passion requited."
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
Date: 1730
"O save me from the tumult of the soul! / From the wild beasts within!"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1731
"And light-wing'd Fancy danc'd and flam'd about her!"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1732
"My Heart flutters like a Bird: I long for Mrs. Martha's Return.
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)