Date: 1740
"In vain with formal Laws we fence it round; Love, swift as Thought, impatient, leaps the Bound,"
preview | full record— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)
Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
"Don't your Heart ake for me? --I am sure mine flutter'd about like a Bird in a Cage new caught."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
The soul "like a Mole in Earth, busy and blind, / Works all her Folly up, and casts it outward / To the World's open View"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1741
"For Thou who, faulty, wrong'st another's Fame, / Howe'er so great and dignify'd thy Name, / The Muse shall drag thee forth to publick Shame; / Pluck the fair Feathers from thy Swan-skin Heart, / And shew thee black and guileful as thou art."
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)
Date: 1741
"I Might give another plain Simile to confirm the Truth of this [mnemonic method]. What Horse or Carriage can take up and bear away all the various, rude and unweildy Loppings of a branchy Tree at once? But if they are divided yet further so as to be laid close, and bound up in a more uniform Man...
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1741
"My Soul is cover'd o'er with Shame, / My Heart a Cage of Birds unclean."
preview | full record— Cennick, John (1718-1755)
Date: 1738, 1742
"See what obnoxious Vices still remain, / Which there's no Law, no Bridle, to restrain."
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1742
"[A]nd when they perceive him so different from what he hath been described, all Gentleness, Softness, Kindness, Tenderness, Fondness, their dreadful Apprehensions vanish in a moment; and now (it being usual with the human Mind to skip from one Extreme to its Opposite, as easily, and almost as su...
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1742
"O treacherous Conscience! while she seems to sleep / On rose and myrtle, lull'd with siren song; / While she seems, nodding o'er her charge, to drop / On headlong appetite the slacken'd rein, / And give us up to licence, unrecall'd, / Unmark'd,---see, from behind her secret stand, / The sly info...
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"Our freedom chain'd; quite wingless our desire; / In sense dark-prison'd all that ought to soar / Prone to the centre; crawling in the dust; / Dismounted every great and glorious aim; / Embruted every faculty divine; / Heart-buried in the rubbish of the world."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)