Date: January 10, 1728.
"I scorn your Imputation, and your Menaces! The Narrowness of your Heart's your Monitor!"
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757); John Vanbrugh (1664-1726)
Date: January 10, 1728.
"I am amaz'd our Legislature has left no Precedent of a Divorce for this more visible Injury, this Adultery of the Mind, as well as that of the Person!"
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757); John Vanbrugh (1664-1726)
Date: January 10, 1728.
"I knew no Directors, but my Passions, no Master but my Will!"
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757); John Vanbrugh (1664-1726)
Date: January 29, 1729
"Still Favourites of these conquering Eyes, / 'gainst whom no Heart's defended."
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: March 24, 1729
"The Youth whom I to save wou'd die, / Surpasses all Desire; / Love's fatal Dart, enflames my Heart, / And sets me all on Fire."
preview | full record— Coffey, Charles (d. 1745)
Date: March 24, 1729
"The Fish in Innocence secure, / Once tempted by the Bait; / Pursues and snaps the treach'rous Lure, / And meets her certain Fate: / So Virgins when to Love betray'd, / Indulge the pleasing Pain; / The Passion does each Sense invade, / They ne'er are free again."
preview | full record— Coffey, Charles (d. 1745)
Date: 1730
Love is a "strange unruly Something in the Soul" that "like a Fire once kindled in a Mine, / Can ne'er be thoroughly quench'd"
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)
Date: 1730
An image may be "too strongly stamp'd, to be soon effac'd" from one's [breast? mind?]
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)
Date: 1730
The "Charms of Modesty" may "kindle Virtues in the roughest Breast" "like the Sun-beams ripening Gems in Rocks"
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)
Date: 1730
A beauteous face may be the index of a beauteous mind
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)