Date: 1724, 1725
"[Love] that Tyrant Passion lords it o'er the Mind, fills every Faculty, and leaves no room for any other Thought--drives Consideration far away--overturns Reflection-- and permits no Image but itself to dwell in Fancy's Region"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: September 10, 1726
"Now, according to my supposition, there being no active intelligent Being, who, by his Presence and Superintendency, governs and directs the Course of those vagabond Images, every thing in the Brain resembles the fortuitous concourse of Atoms."
preview | full record— Arbuckle, James (d. 1742)
Date: [1726]
"I will not (continued the God of tender Wishes) prolong the little Narrative I have to make you, by a repetition of her Lamentations when alone, and at liberty to indulge them; you may believe they were extremely violent, and suitable to the Occasion: but as soon as Reason had the power of resum...
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: [1726]
"Endeavour at least, to throw each darling Failing from thy Soul; and those Reflections which, in thy coolest Hours of Thought, Reason inspires, retain about thee always; then canst thou never be by any ill Passion sway'd, nor do a Deed which Conscience can condemn: Conscience and Reason still go...
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1726
"Their proper country, says Philander, is the breast of a good man: for I think they are most of them the figures of Virtues."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1727
"With inflected View, / Thence on th' Ideal Kingdom, swift, she turns / Her Eye; and instant, at her virtual Glance, / Th' obedient Phantoms vanish, and appear, / Compound, divide, and into Order shift, / Each to his rank, from plain Perception up / To Notion quite abstract; where first begins / ...
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: January 10, 1728.
"I knew no Directors, but my Passions, no Master but my Will!"
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757); John Vanbrugh (1664-1726)
Date: 1729
"O man! thy fabric's like a well-form'd state; / Thy thoughts, first-rank'd, were sure design'd the great!"
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1729
"Passions plebeians are, which faction raise; / Wine, like pour'd oil, excites the raging blaze: / Then giddy anarchy's rude triumphs rise: / Then sov'reign reason from her empire flies."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1729
"That ruler [Reason] once depos'd, wisdom and wit, / To noise and folly, place and pow'r submit."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)