Date: 1730
"Beauteous Creature! while I behold you, Thoughts crowd on Thoughts, and even obstruct the little Eloquence that I am Master of"
preview | full record— Cibber, Theophilus (1703-1758)
Date: November 10, 1730
"Virtue, Love, and Grief, so amply fill her Mind, there is no Room for any ruder Guest"
preview | full record— Lillo, George (1691/3-1739)
Date: June 22, 1731
"What Pity it is, a Mind so comprehensive, daring and inquisitive, shou'd be a Stranger to Religion's sweet, but powerful Charms."
preview | full record— Lillo, George (1691/3-1739)
Date: 1732
"But I know that your Heart has ever been a Stranger to your Words and Actions"
preview | full record— Kelly, John (1680-1751)
Date: June 1, 1732
"Oh! give me way, come all you Furies, come, / Lodge in th'unfurnish'd Chambers of my Heart, / My Heart which never shall be let again / To any Guest but endless Misery, / Never shall have a Bill upon it more."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1736
"Awake, great Common Sense, and sleep no more, / Look to thy self; for then, when I was slain, / Thy self was struck at."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1739
"The Sense but to have sav'd that wond'rous Man, / Is still a smiling Cherub in my Breast, / And whispers Peace within."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1743
"Mine is a true English Heart; it is an equal Stranger to the Heat of the Equator and the Frost of the Pole."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1745
"At first his Passions burst / Quick as the Lightning's Flash: but in his Breast / Honour and Justice dwell--Trust me, to Reason / He will return."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1752
"Assist me, Furies, with your hellish Aid, / Nor let the Tyrant Conscience more invade; / Since I am stain'd with Blood, thro' Blood I'll wade."
preview | full record— Gentleman, Francis (1728-1784)