Date: 1715-1720
"But wasting Cares lay heavy on his Mind"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
"A brave Mind however blinded with Passion is sensible of Remorse as soon as the injur'd Object presents itself; and Paris never behaves himself ill in War, but when his Spirits are depress'd by the Consciousness of an Injustice."
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Date: 1715-1720
"Pensive he sate; for all that Fate design'd, /Rose in sad Prospect to his boding Mind. / Thus to his Soul he said."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
"The Soul, in which the Mind was lodg'd, was suppos'd exactly to resemble the Body in Shape, Magnitude, and Features; for this being in the Body as the Statue in its Mold, so soon as it goes forth is properly the Image of that Body in which it was enclos'd."
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Date: 1715-1720
"He weighs everything in the balance of Reason; he sets before himself the Baseness of Flight, and the Courage of his Enemy, till at last the thirst of Glory preponderates all other Considerations."
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Date: 1715-1720
"This strong and ruling Faculty was like a powerful Planet, which in the Violence of its Course, drew all things within its Vortex."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1716
"O then, from such Idolatry refrain, To worship the Chimeras of your Brain."
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Date: 1717
One may strive "On every Subject's Heart to seal his Love ... What Breast so hard? what Heart of human make, / But softning did the kind Impression take?"
preview | full record— Duke, Richard (1658-1711)
Date: 1717
"I render back the Treasure of thy Heart: / When in some new fair Breast it finds a Room, And I shall lie neglected in my Tomb; / Remember, oh! remember, the fair She / Can never love thee, darling Youth! like me."
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1717
"But Man would yet look wondrous wise. / And equal Chains of Thought devise."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)