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: 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: 1799
"The heart and the mind are prejudiced judges, ever at war with consistency and truth; they recoil with indignation from the smallest speck on another's conduct, yet pass with exultation over the mountain that darkens their own"
preview | full record— West, Matthew (d. 1814); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
"Thou enviest the sovereignty Pizarro holds over my heart; but be assured, you never shall reign there."
preview | full record— West, Matthew (d. 1814); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
"A country is only a family on a larger scale; and transient, indeed, must that unanimity be, when inclination is law, and the various passions of the mind are suffer'd to run riot"
preview | full record— West, Matthew (d. 1814); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
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)