Date: August, 1674; 1675
"My rage he scorns, and negligent appears, / And thinks the Storm will melt away in tears"
preview | full record— Crowne, John (bap. 1641, d. 1712)
Date: 1681
"[H]ere's the wit of a Tarpawlin now; one ruffling Storm frights away all their brains, to make room for the fumes that make them Valiant"
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1686
"Oh what a Tempest have I in my Stomach?"
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1693
"My heart is now calm and even like a standing water, and I could wish it would so remain, without the Flux, and Reflux of a passionate tyde agitated and driven at the mercy of the winds; sometimes rising with the floods of Joy, above the banks of moderation: and afterwards discending into the Gu...
preview | full record— Higden, Henry (bap. 1645)
Date: 1700
"To think of a Whirlwind, tho' 'twere in a Whirlwind, were a Case of more steady Contemplation; a very tranquility of Mind and Mansion."
preview | full record— Congreve, William (1670-1729)
Date: 1700
"Haste then, my Friend, to drive / That Cloud of Sorrow which o'recasts her Mind, / And, like the Sun, dispel her gloomy Thoughts."
preview | full record— Centlivre [née Freeman; other married name Carroll], Susanna (bap. 1669?, d. 1723)