Date: 1743
"Where had Reason the Dominion, I should have long since expell'd the little Tyrant, who hath made such Ravage there"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1743
"Of what Use is Reason then? Why, of the Use that a Window is to a Man in a Prison, to let him see the Horrors he is confined in; but lends him no Assistance to his Escape"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1743
"Mine is a true English Heart; it is an equal Stranger to the Heat of the Equator and the Frost of the Pole."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1743
"Love still nourishes [the heart] with a temperate Heat, as the Sun doth our Climate; and Beauties rise after Beauties in the one, just as Fruits do in the other"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1747
"And it must be a thorough Acquaintance with her too, that will ever make an Impression on my Heart."
preview | full record— Hoadly, Benjamin (1706-1757)
Date: 1747
"Not fuller than my Head, Sir, I promise you."
preview | full record— Hoadly, Benjamin (1706-1757)
Date: 1752, performed 1772
"I flatter'd my poor soul that all its Fears / Were Grief's distemper'd coinage, that my Love / Rais'd causeless apprehensions, and at length / Edgar would quite forgive."
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1753
The "Sunshine of a northern Beauty is too feeble to thaw the icy Heart of a French Courtier"
preview | full record— Foote, Samuel (1720-1777)
Date: 1753
"But their Hearts were steel'd by Custom."
preview | full record— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)
Date: 1753
"He combats Passion, rooted in the Soul, / Whose Powers at once delight ye and controul; / Whose Magic Bondage each lost Slave enjoys, / Nor wishes Freedom, tho' the Spell destroys."
preview | full record— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)