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Date: 1709
"Honour! the fatal Tumor of the Mind; / From which our Modern Gentry take their Bent, / And think they're Noble, if they're Insolent."
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Date: 1709
"Tho' fled from Justice to evade his Sin, / Can he suppress the living Judge within?"
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Date: 1709
Guilt may "to the Soul it's frightful Message speak" while "Terror, Despair, and all the grizly Crew: / Those direful Vultures on [the] Soul shall gnaw"
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Date: 1709
"The Empire of his Soul was hers; enchanted by inexplicable, irresistable Magick!"
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1709
"He wou'd steal himself into her Soul, he wou'd make himself necessary to her quiet, as she was to his."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1709
"[W]ould not one believe her Charms are sufficient to conquer a thousand Hearts?"
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1709
"[W]e may Hope those favourable Sentiments will be no Strangers to Your Grace's Breast; which is a Repository for all Things Great and Human, for all Things Just and Noble"
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1709
"The lovely Youth knew punctually how to improve those first and precious Moments of good-fortune, whilst yet the Gloss of Novelty remain'd, whilst Desire was unsated, and Love in the high Spring-tide of full delight; having an early Forcast, a Chain of Thought, unusual at his Years, a length of ...
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1709
"That fatal Night the Duke felt hostile Fires in his Breast, Love was entred with all his dreadful Artillery; he took possession in a moment of the Avenues that lead to the Heart! neither did the resistance he found there serve for any thing but to make his Conquest more illustrious."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1709
"The Duke try'd every corner of his uneasie Bed! whether shut or open, Charlot was still before his Eyes! his Lips and Face retain'd the dear Impression of her Kisses! the Idea of her innocent and charming Touches, wander'd o'er his Mind!"
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
