Date: February 22, 1723
"For 'tis th' infirmity of noblest minds, / When ruffled with an unexpected woe, / To speak what settled prudence wou'd conceal: / As the vex'd ocean working in a storm, / Oft brings to light the wrecks which long lay calm, / In the dark bosom of the secret deep."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
"The fair offended seems to shun me now: / How shall I calm the tempest of her Soul!"
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
"Thy future doom / Thus pictur'd to my view, so wrap'd my soul / In clouds of deep despair, I strait comply'd / To give the filial pledge."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: 1724
"Your passions late were wing'd, like vengeful whirlwinds, / Now they sink, sighing, to a gale of sorrow!"
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1724
"Reflection your Renown, clear as your Conscience; / The stormy Passions of your Soul, allay'd / By Reason to soft Gales, serenely playing / On the full Current of your youthful Blood, / By Nature and Occasion smoothly led / Through a fair Field of Royal Virtues, fruitful / In great Examples, and...
preview | full record— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
Date: 1725
"What silly Notions crowd the clouded Mind, / That is thro' want of Education blind!"
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: 1728
"When Love in an impetuous Torrent flows, / How vainly Reason would its Force oppose; / Hurl'd down the Stream, like Flowers before the Wind, / She leaves to Love, the Empire of the Mind."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1730
"All deaths, all tortures, in one pang combin'd, / Are gentle to the tempest of the mind."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: June 22, 1731
"A heavy Melancholy clouds my Spirits; my Imagination is fill'd with gashly Forms of dreary Graves, and Bodies chang'd by Death,--when the pale lengthen'd Visage attracks each weeping Eye,--and fills the musing Soul, at once, with Grief and Horror, Pity and Aversion."
preview | full record— Lillo, George (1691/3-1739)
Date: 1731
"Shalt thou inflame me thus,--Unseat my Soul; / Tear out wrong'd Patience from my bleeding Heart, / And work me into Tempest!"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)