Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"The cursed Deed will turn me savage wild, / Blot ev'ry Thought of Nature from my Soul."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1717
"Thou hast resolv'd his Fate, I read thy Soul, / This ten long Months I've study'd thy dark Breast / And know the Want of Vertue in thy Frame, / Which must subject thee to the Mind, that knows thee."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: April 18, 1721
"If, after Death, our Forms (as some believe) / Shall be transparent, naked every Thought, / And Friends meet Friends, and read each other's Hearts, / Thou'lt know one day, that thou wast held most dear. / Farewel."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: February 22, 1723
"Sir, let her crime / Erase the faithful characters, which love / Imprinted on your heart."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: 1726
"How the weak Mind a naked Blank, receives, / The first Impression Time, or Custom gives."
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1731
"Cruelly kind, press inward, on my Heart; / But fright not Reason, cling not to my Thought, / Blot, blot Remembrance out, strike Home, at Life, / Pour, all at once, Oblivion on my Soul, / And quench me, into Quiet."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1753
"Afflictions such as hers are prying, and lend those Eyes that read the Soul."
preview | full record— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)
Date: 1755
"When Love's once united, no Tyrant shall part / Nor can time efface what is grav'd on my heart."
preview | full record— Mendez, Moses (1690 - c.1758)
Date: 1755
"Why did I not / Repent, while yet my Crimes were decibel! / Ere they had struck their Colours thro' my Soul, / As black as Night or Hell!"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1761
"But now proceed; / Give me more names; these many I have wrote / Deep in the vengeful tablets of my heart."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)