Date: 1700

"Unfinish'd Notions in the Mind he sees, / And the rude Lines of half-drawn Images."

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

Date: 1700

"Black throngs of Woes invade my frighted Soul, / As crowding Billows on each other roll."

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

Date: 1700

"The Lamp of Life burns dimly in my Breast, / Soon from its beating toil my weary Heart will rest."

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

Date: 1700

"He oft reflected on the sacred Guest, / Which had her fixt abode within his Breast, / And in his Works her God-like Form exprest."

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

Date: 1702

"Open to Love your long-shut Breast, / And entertain its sweetest Guest."

— Sedley, Sir Charles (1639-1701)

Date: 1703

"Was she old and deform'd, / Her Wit and her Air, / Would conquer more Hearts, / Than the Young and the Fair."

— Egerton [née Fyge; other married name Field], Sarah (1670-1723)

Date: 1703

"Those Charms are more noble, / The Lovely and Kind / May vanquish the Body, / She conquers the Mind."

— Egerton [née Fyge; other married name Field], Sarah (1670-1723)

Date: 1703

"His Suff'rings on my Mind a deep Impression leave."

— Chudleigh [née Lee], Mary, Lady Chudleigh (bap. 1656, d. 1710)

Date: 1703

In Ovid "Methinks, I see those Passions well exprest, / Which play the Tyrant in the Mortal Breast"

— Chudleigh [née Lee], Mary, Lady Chudleigh (bap. 1656, d. 1710)

Date: 1703

"Reason rules within, and keeps the throne / While the inferior faculties obey, / And all her laws with reluctance own"

— Chudleigh [née Lee], Mary, Lady Chudleigh (bap. 1656, d. 1710)