Date: 1706
"Now with Submission to my Betters, I have another way, Sir; I'll drive my Tyrant from my Heart, and place my self in her Throne."
preview | full record— Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)
Date: 1707
"Lost in Labyrinths of Love, / My Breast with hoarded Vengeance burns, / While Fear and Rage / With Hope engage, / And rule my wav'ring Soul by turns."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"Yes, Oswald, by the conscious Judge within, / So do I stand acquitted to my self, / That were my Ethelinda free from Danger, / On Peril of my Life, I would make known, / And to the World avow my Love and Faith."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"My faithful Seofrid / Has pierc'd into her very inmost Heart, / And found thee reigning there."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"Since Love is lost, / Come thou Revenge, succeed thou to ray Bosom, / And reign in all my Soul."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1712
"Fancy governs the Blood--and when the Imagination is cloy'd, Reason is a Slave to Appetite-- the despotic Ruler of our Souls and Bodies."
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1712
"[W]hen the Imagination is cloy'd, Reason is a Slave to Appetite"
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1712
Appetite is "the despotic Ruler of our Souls and Bodies
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1712
" But as the Passions of the Human Mind / Must strictly be to Nature's Laws confin'd,"
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)