Date: 1701
"My Reason's conquer'd by more powerful Love, / Who rules as Tyrant in my captiv'd Breast."
preview | full record— Sherburne, Sir Edward (bap. 1616, d. 1702)
Date: 1701
One may "as on the Throne, so in [her] Peoples Hearts / Reign Emperour"
preview | full record— Pix, Mary (c.1666-1720)
Date: 1701
"Here, take me Mother, Father, Wife, take each a part in my Capacious Heart; Reign ever there, as absolute as I o're all my mighty Empires"
preview | full record— Pix, Mary (c.1666-1720)
Date: 1701
"Love governs every Sense, every Affection, every Principle truckles to that more noble Passion."
preview | full record— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)
Date: 1701
"Which are but tantalizing Amusements that debauch our Genius when they are once over, and Fatigue allows us a serious interval; with what regret do we reflect upon our Folly, in letting our Appetites govern our Reason, and like the Sirens Song charm us into Ruine."
preview | full record— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)
Date: 1702
"But, Oh! 'tis past; and I will charge Remembrance / To banish the fond Image from my Soul."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1702
"Nature asserts her Empire in her Heart, / And kindly takes the faithful Lover's part."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1702
""Reason resumes her Empire, / And I am cool again."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1702
"For oh! My faithful Haly, / Another Care has taken up thy Master; / Spight of the high-wrought Tempest in my Soul, / Spight of the Pangs, which Jealousy has cost me; / This haughty Woman reigns within my Breast: / In vain I strive to put her from my Thoughts, / To drive her out with Empire, and ...
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1700, 1702
"Love reigns my Tyrant, to himself alone / He vindicates the Empire of my Breast, / And banishes all Thoughts of Joy for ever."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)