Date: 1701
"Stand by ye Fools--That noble Theam's my share,/ Farce is a Strain too low to court the Fair; / When to that pitch your Thoughts attempt to fly, / Like unskill'd Icarus you soar too high."
preview | full record— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)
Date: 1704
"Who then wou'd court the Pomp of guilty Power, / When the Mind sickens at the weary Shew, / And flies to temporary Death for Ease."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1706
"Not in the Court of Conscience, Sir."
preview | full record— Centlivre [née Freeman; other married name Carroll], Susanna (bap. 1669?, d. 1723)
Date: 1708
"Passion more substantial Courts our Reason, solid, persuasive, elegant, sublime, where ev'ry Sense crowds to the luscious Banquet, and ev'ry nobler Faculty's imploy'd"
preview | full record— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)
Date: 1715
"Let thy Heart kindle with the highest Hopes, / Expand thy Bosom, let thy Soul inlarg'd, / Make Room to entertain the coming Glory, / For Majesty and Purple Greatness court thee, / Homage and low Subjection wait."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1715
"Shall thy Soul / Still scorn the World, still flie the Joys that court / Thy blooming Beauty, and thy tender Youth? / Still shall she soar on Contemplation's Wing, / And mix with nothing meaner than the Stars; / As Heaven and Immortality alone / Were Objects worthy to employ her Faculties."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1715
"Love is a Court of Honour in the Heart"
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1731
"I am unpractis'd in the Arts of Court; / And my free Thoughts range open as my Eye-balls."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1739
"And as the Author very well says, whose Name I've forgot, Man is in this World like a Bird upon a Bough, the Bough is fix'd to the Tree, he who is fix'd to the Tree follows good Precepts, good Precepts are better than fine Words, fine Words are found at Court, at Court are Courtiers, Courtiers f...
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller James (1706-1744); Molière (1622-1673)
Date: 1745
"Tho' practis'd long in Courts, / I have not so far learn'd their subtle Trade, / To veer obedient with each Gust of Passion."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)