Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"Curst be your Looks, your Tongues, and your false Arts, / That cheat our Eyes, and wound our easie Hearts."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1708
"That Passion you describe's a sleeping Potion, a lazy, stupid, lethargy of Mind, that nums our Faculties, destroys our Reason"
preview | full record— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)
Date: 1713
"My Heart is wounded, when I see such Virtue / Afflicted by the Weight of such Misfortunes."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1714
"Joy of my Life, my dearest Shore, forbear / To wound my Heart with thy foreboding Sorrows."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1714
"Well then, I own my Heart has broke your Chains. / Patient I bore the painful Bondage long, / At length my generous Love disdains your Tyranny."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1714
"What charitable Hand will aid me now? / Will stay my failing Steps, support my Ruines, / And heal my wounded Mind with Balmy Comfort?"
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