Date: First performed February 17, 1720.
"O self-destroying Monster! that art blind, / Yet putt'st out Reason's Eyes, that still shou'd guide thee, / Then plungest down some Precipice unseen, / And art no more!--Hear me, all-gracious Heav'n!"
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: First performed February 17, 1720.
"It wounds my Heart / To think thou follow'st but to share my Ruin."
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1722
One's head and heart may be "on the rack" about something worrisome
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: February 22, 1723
"O Sir! reflect, if thus / The bare recital wounds your fancy now, / A yet more dreadful pain may pierce your heart!"
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: 1725
"What silly Notions crowd the clouded Mind, / That is thro' want of Education blind!"
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: 1726
One may be galled "with Reproaches and Contempt, more heavy, and corroding into my Soul, than the Load and Rust of my Irons eating into my Flesh? "
preview | full record— Southerne, Thomas (1659-1746)
Date: January 10, 1728.
"I am amaz'd our Legislature has left no Precedent of a Divorce for this more visible Injury, this Adultery of the Mind, as well as that of the Person!"
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757); John Vanbrugh (1664-1726)
Date: 1730
A beauteous face may be the index of a beauteous mind
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)
Date: 1730
"What dreadful havoc in the human breast / The passions make, when unconfin'd, and mad, / They burst, unguided by the mental eye, / The light of reason; which in various ways / Points them to good, or turns them back from ill."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1731
"I am unpractis'd in the Arts of Court; / And my free Thoughts range open as my Eye-balls."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)