Date: 1722
"When religious passions, namely, love, desire, hope and delight are exalted in the highest degree, and agitate the soul with the greatest vehemence, while reason presides as sovereign, holds the reins, and directs all their motions; this is so far from being a wild and extravagant temper of mind...
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1722
"Vertues, and Vices, are to Realms confin'd: / And, Climates give a Tincture to the Mind."
preview | full record— Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)
Date: 1722
"Now boiling high / With Injuries;--with Outrages!--that burn, / That set the very suffering Soul on Fire!"
preview | full record— Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)
Date: 1722
"Blush rather, that you are a Slave to Passion; / Subservient to the Wildness of your Will; / Which, like a Whirlwind, tears up all your Vertues; / And gives you not the Leisure to consider."
preview | full record— Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)
Date: 1722
"Consider; Gwendolen, my lasting Passion; / A Passion, that, through Time, takes deeper Root; / A Love, that, spight of Absence, hourly grows; / In spight even of Despair:--Yet, will I not / Despair; since Fortune favours thus my Hopes."
preview | full record— Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)
Date: 1722
"And yet, whate'er I do, my Hopes are blasted. / That this fierce Combat in my Heart were over!"
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Date: 1722, 1725
"Our Passions gone, and Reason in her Throne, / Amaz'd we see the Mischiefs we have done!" [citing Waller]
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1722, 1725
The proudest of the female Sex may glory in the Conquest of a Heart
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1722, 1725
"Reason, at last, has gain'd a Conquest over all that Softness which has hitherto betray'd me to Contempt"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1722, 1725
"I got into an Arbor in the Garden, to peruse the dear Contents, which I very well remember, and are too deeply engraven in my Mind, ever to be forgotten."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)