Date: 1762
"I'm speaking of thy mind alone; / Where keen reproaches all resort, / Where biting scandal holds her court; / From whence she throws her pois'nous dart / At ev'ry unprovoking heart."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: Saturday, Aug. 3, 1754; 1756
"It is justly remarked by Horace, that what is conveyed to our Notice through our Ears, acts with a more feeble Impulse upon the Mind, than Objects that pass through the Organs of Sight, those faithful Evidences in a mental Court of Judicature."
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Date: 1762
"The unbridled Athamand, his sister's son, / In firm alliance with a noble princess, / Whom Persia's court had destin'd to his love, / (His tyrant passions brooking no controul,) / Demanded Zobeide as despotic master."
preview | full record— Cradock, Joseph (1742-1826)
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: 1780
"Once love gets into a man's head, poor reason is brought before a court-martial of the passions, and cashiered without a hearing"
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
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: 1765, 1770
"Great is the soul which fears no vulgar awe, / But proves with pride that love's her first, great law."
preview | full record— Thompson, Edward (1738-1786)