Date: 1728
"I know not why it is, but certainly a Woman is the least liable to play the Fool here; perhaps, the Hurry of Diversions and Company keep the Mind in too perpetual a Motion to let it fix on one Object."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: January 10, 1728.
"I scorn your Imputation, and your Menaces! The Narrowness of your Heart's your Monitor!"
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757); John Vanbrugh (1664-1726)
Date: January 10, 1728.
"I am amaz'd our Legislature has left no Precedent of a Divorce for this more visible Injury, this Adultery of the Mind, as well as that of the Person!"
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757); John Vanbrugh (1664-1726)
Date: January 10, 1728.
"I knew no Directors, but my Passions, no Master but my Will!"
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757); John Vanbrugh (1664-1726)
Date: 1728
"Soon as the short Delirium past you find, / And Sense regains it's Empire o'er the Mind, / You bless the Hand that eas'd your anxious Cares, / And pour for Brunswick's House incessant Prayers!"
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1728
One may lull his raging Thoughts to rest "And calm the Tempest rising in [his] Breast"
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)
Date: 1728
"Go, vain mistaken Man, if you would find / That golden Ore, Contentment of the Mind, / Depart from all these busy Ills of Life /And live exempt from Pride, and Noise and Strife"
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)
Date: 1728
"Yet Care, a greater Tyrant, rules your Breast; / You, with a Nod, the suppliant World command, / Yet cannot rule that little Empire, Man."
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)
Date: 1728
"Say, to what friendly Aid we owe / Those Gleams that in the Minds fair Mirrour play?"
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)
Date: 1728
"From what rich Fountain flow / Those ripening Beams of intellectual Day?"
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)