Date: w. 1678, 1702
"[B]e not over-curious to express / Too much Exactness in an outward Dress; / Lest peevish Passion should too oft prevail, / To banish Reason from its Throne, and vail / Sound Judgment"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: w. 1678, 1702
"[I]n thy Heart reveal / Eternal Life, as the abiding Seal / Of his endeared Love"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: 1778, 1804
"There is some kind and courtly sprite / That o'er the realm of Fancy reigns."
preview | full record— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)
Date: 1700
"Whilst in my Soul Despair her Court maintains, / And with deep Pomp in solid Darkness Reigns."
preview | full record— Hopkins, John (b. 1675)
Date: June 4, 1772, 1773
In the fields "peerless Fancy hads her court / And tunes her lays."
preview | full record— Fergusson, Robert (1750-1774)
Date: 1785
Jealousy's monsters may hurl "frighted Reason from her throne, / And with her all the charities that wait / To grace her virtuous Court"
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1785
When Passion dwells in the heart it is "Pleasure's court"
preview | full record— Lovibond, Edward (bap. 1723, d. 1775)
Date: 1751
"But sure thy mind was meant the court of love, / Soft as the joys, that yielding virgins move."
preview | full record— Harman, P.
Date: 1723
"Thou know'st the secret Soul's imperial Throne / Surrounded with thick Darkness, like thy own, / Where she to all the Senses Audience gives, / Appoints their Tasks, their Messages receives, / And passes Judgement in her Sov'reign Court / On every Envoy's true or false Report / How her sole Nod...
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1862
"When reason gets into the throne, / The court shall teach us to be godly."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)