Date: 1722
"Furnish'd with nothing but a faithless Breast, / Where only filthy Lusts and Passions dwell, Like Dirt and Cobwebs in a Hermet's Cell."
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1723
"How does this Tyrant lord it in thy Mind? / What Symptoms of his Empire do'st thou find?"
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
Date: 1723
"For, trust me, Love (that Inmate of the Mind) / Is very much mistaken by Mankind / For which too often is misunderstood / The sudden Rage and Madness of the Blood."
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
Date: 1723
"Does thy Soul sicken, while thy Body's sound?"
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
Date: 1723
"Does in thy Thought some blooming Beauty reign, / Whose strong Idea mingles Joy with Pain?"
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
Date: August, 1752
"The softenâd heart, prepar'd to take / Whate'er impressions Love shall make."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: 1753
"Say, coward learning! long, too long, misled! / If, yet, thou dar'st erect thy dizzy head! / And art not, yet, heart-conquer'd quite, / By power and custom join'd; too, too unequal fight!"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1753
"Herald vengeance! swift arise! / Shell, with steel, thy flinty heart!"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1755
"Of sorriest fancies your companions making, / Using those thoughts which should indeed have died / With them they think on."
preview | full record— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Date: 1755
"Love is by fancy led about"
preview | full record— Granville [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]