Date: April 18, 1721
"Oh, what a Pain to think! when every Thought, / Perplexing Thought in Intricacies runs, / And Reason knits th'inextricable Toil / In which her self is taken. I am lost, / Poor Insect that I am, I am involv'd, / And bury'd in the Web my self have wrought."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: April 18, 1721
"O the Medley / Of Right and Wrong! the Chaos in my Brain! / He should, and should not dye-- / You should Obey, / And not Obey.--It is a Day of Darkness, / Of Contradictions, and of many Deaths."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: April 18, 1721
"I told her, from your Childhood you was wont / On any great Surprize, but chiefly then / When cause of Sorrow bore it Company, / To have your Passion shake the Seat of Reason, / A momentary Ill, which soon blew o'er."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1722
"The disappointed advocate, finding she had so unexpected a support, on cooler thoughts descended to a composition, which I, without her knowledge, secretly discharged."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1722
"You say this because I wrung you to the heart when I touched your guilty conscience about Judy"
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1722
"Have I then at last a father's sanction on my love? His bounteous hand to give and make my heart a present worthy of Bevil's generosity?"
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1722
"Vertues, and Vices, are to Realms confin'd: / And, Climates give a Tincture to the Mind."
preview | full record— Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)
Date: 1723, 1739-40
"Let's join our Hearts then, and seal them with a Kiss"
preview | full record— Bellamy, Daniel, the Elder (b. 1687)
Date: February 22, 1723
"If a single thought / Were tinctur'd with disloyalty, this hand / Shou'd pierce my heart to drive the rebel out."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
"No, my dear Roman! nothing can deface / Thy image from thy virgin-widow's breast; / Th' inviolable band of strong desire / Shall ever join our souls!"
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)