Date: 1722
"Blush rather, that you are a Slave to Passion; / Subservient to the Wildness of your Will; / Which, like a Whirlwind, tears up all your Vertues; / And gives you not the Leisure to consider."
preview | full record— Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)
Date: February 22, 1723
"If a single thought / Were tinctur'd with disloyalty, this hand / Shou'd pierce my heart to drive the rebel out."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
"Blind fortune that bestows / The perishable toys of wealth and pow'r, / At random oft resumes them, pleas'd to make / An hurricane of life: but the firm mind / Safe on exalted virtue reigns sedate, / Superior to the giddy whirls of fate."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
"Prepare with every smiling grace t'adorn / The festival; and let victorious joy / Chase every black idea from thy mind: / For ever banish from thy gentle breast / All cares, except the pleasing cares of love!"
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
"Alas! the pain / We feel, whene'er we dispossess the soul / Of that tormenting tyrant [love], far exceeds / The rigor of his rule."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
"With reason quell / That haughty passion; treat it as your slave: / Resume the monarch!"
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
"At this late hour, / What discord breaks the virtuous harmony, / Which wont to reign within thy pious breast?"
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: 1723, 1735
One may fear a growing empire in another's heart
preview | full record— Hildebrand, Jacob (1692/3-1739)
Date: 1723, 1740
"My Sister weeping! Tho' her Reason governs, / I judge her Grief for Cassius, by my own."
preview | full record— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)
Date: 1724
"What a slave is man, when passion masters him?"
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)