Date: 1717
"My Friend, does she not rule thy Soul?"
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1717
"She does! she does! my charming Queen reigns here, / Triumphant in her native Throne, my Heart."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1717
"Against my self my rebel Passions arm; / They bound within my Breast to meet this Victor."
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Date: 1717
"Were not my Mind enslav'd, were that but free, / How could I brave my Chains?"
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Date: w. 1718 [first published 1907]
"All this says Richard is but Nonsense / For whats the Will without the Conscience / That mighty Pow'r by whom the thought / Is from Kings Bench to Chanc'ry brought. / What Seat for Her have You assign'd / When She may view and sway the mind?"
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1718
"A thousand little Nerves She sends / Quite to our Toes, and Fingers Ends; / And These in Gratitude again / Return their Spirits to the Brain; / In which their Figure being printed / (As just before, I think, I hinted) / Alma inform'd can try the Case, / As She had seen upon the Place. // Thus, w...
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Date: 1718
The mind is like "The Pope [who] prays and sleeps at Rome, / And very seldom stirs from Home: / Yet sending forth his Holy Spies, / And having heard what They advise, / He rules the Church's blest Dominions; / And sets Men's Faith by His Opinions."
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Date: 1718
One may erect in one' s heart a "Conscience-Throne"
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
Date: 1718
"Reluctant Reason you'll in Fetters keep, / And lay th' insulting Judge within asleep."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1718, 1720
"For Love's my constant Guest, / And reigns a Lordly Tyrant in my Breast."
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)