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: 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)
Date: 1715
"Love is a Court of Honour in the Heart"
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1799
"The judge of our court of conscience is the noblest soul I ever knew"
preview | full record— Ludger, Conrad (b. 1748)
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: 1762
"The unbridled Athamand, his sister's son, / In firm alliance with a noble princess, / Whom Persia's court had destin'd to his love, / (His tyrant passions brooking no controul,) / Demanded Zobeide as despotic master."
preview | full record— Cradock, Joseph (1742-1826)
Date: 1780
"Once love gets into a man's head, poor reason is brought before a court-martial of the passions, and cashiered without a hearing"
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
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: 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)