Date: 1732
"My Heart flutters like a Bird: I long for Mrs. Martha's Return.
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)
Date: June 1, 1732
"Oh! I am all on Fire, thou lovely Wench, / Torrents of Joy my burning Soul must quench, / Reiterated Joys!"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: June 1, 1732
"Oh! give me way, come all you Furies, come, / Lodge in th'unfurnish'd Chambers of my Heart, / My Heart which never shall be let again / To any Guest but endless Misery, / Never shall have a Bill upon it more."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: June 1, 1732
"Ha! Distraction wild / Begins to wanton in my unhing'd Brain: / Methinks I'm mad, mad as a wild March Hare; / My muddy Brain is addled like an Egg, / My Teeth, like Magpies, chatter in my Head; / My reeling Head! which akes like any mad."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1734
Love may take the heart with storm and rule there alone
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1734
"Alas! that I shou'd view your Heart in the Mirror of my own!"
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756); Terence (c. 190 - 159 B.C.)
Date: 1734, 1753
"Man, the deceiver, veils his cruel art, / And skreens himself within th' attempted heart; / There, to ungen'rous empire, climbs, e'er long, / Help'd by the confidence he means to wrong."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: February 3, 1735
"That a Grain of Good-nature will preponderate against an Ounce of Wit; a Heart full of Virtue against a Head full of Learning; and a Thimble-full of Content against a Chest full of Gold."
preview | full record— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)
Date: 1735
"Love is a little, sly, designing Knave, / And meanly steals his Conquests o'er our Minds"
preview | full record— Hildebrand, Jacob (1692/3-1739)
Date: 1735
Reason may be "lull'd to Sleep by Idleness"
preview | full record— Hildebrand, Jacob (1692/3-1739)