Date: 1713
When music plays, "Intestine war no more our Passions wage, / And giddy Factions hear away their rage."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1713
"At others [other times], to be present when a battel or a storm raged, or a glittering palace rose in his imagination"
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1713
"Now, Marcus, now, thy Virtue's on the Proof: / Put forth thy utmost Strength, work ev'ry Nerve, / And call up all thy Father in thy Soul: / To quell the Tyrant Love, and guard thy Heart / On this weak Side, where most our Nature fails, / Would be a Conquest worthy Cato's Son."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: w. 1702, 1713
"Fair Ideas in full Glory shine, / Eternal Models of exalted Parts, / The Pride of Minds, and Conquerors of Hearts."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1713
"Imperial Reason keeps her awful Throne, / Above the Tumult reigns unmov'd alone: / At her Command intestine Discords cease, / And all th' inferiour Pow'rs lie hush'd in Peace."
preview | full record— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)
Date: 1713
"Since we have made this Breach in her Heart, my Lad, there is now no fear of gaining the Citadel."
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
Date: 1714
"Oh Jealousie! Thou Bane of pleasing Friendship, / Thou worst Invader of our tender Bosoms; / How does thy Rancour poison all our Softness, / And turn our gentle Natures into Bitterness."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1714, 1735
" What cruel Dæmon haunts my tortur'd Mind? / Sure, if 'twere Love, I shou'd th'Invader find;"
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1705, 1714, 1732
"The Chief Thing, therefore, which Lawgivers and other wise Men, that have laboured for the Establishment of Society, have endeavour'd, has been to make the People they were to govern, believe, that it was more beneficial for every Body to conquer than indulge his Appetites and much better to min...
preview | full record— Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733)
Date: 1705, 1714, 1732
Some may make "a continual War with themselves to promote the Peace of others" and aim at "no less than the Publick Welfare and the Conquest of their own Passion"
preview | full record— Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733)