Date: 1700
"Love will resume his Empire in our Breasts, and every Heart, or soon or late, receive and readmit him as its lawful Tyrant"
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Date: 1702
"But, Oh! 'tis past; and I will charge Remembrance / To banish the fond Image from my Soul."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1702
"Nature asserts her Empire in her Heart, / And kindly takes the faithful Lover's part."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1702
""Reason resumes her Empire, / And I am cool again."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1702
"For oh! My faithful Haly, / Another Care has taken up thy Master; / Spight of the high-wrought Tempest in my Soul, / Spight of the Pangs, which Jealousy has cost me; / This haughty Woman reigns within my Breast: / In vain I strive to put her from my Thoughts, / To drive her out with Empire, and ...
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Date: 1700, 1702
"Love reigns my Tyrant, to himself alone / He vindicates the Empire of my Breast, / And banishes all Thoughts of Joy for ever."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1703
"I found my Heart no more beat high with Transport, / No more I sigh'd, and languish'd for Enjoyment, / 'Twas past, and Reason took her turn to reign, / While ev'ry Weakness fell before her Throne."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1703
"Thou know'st thy Rule, thy Empire in Horatio, / Nor canst thou ask in vain, command in vain, / Where Nature, Reason, nay where Love is Judge."
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Date: 1706
"And therefore wert thou bred to virtuous Knowledge, / And Wisdom early planted in thy Soul; / That thou might'st know to rule thy fiery Passions, / To bind their Rage, and stay their headlong Course."
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Date: 1706
"There's but one Way however to resent it from a Woman; and that's to drive her bravely from your Heart, and place a worthier in her vacant Throne."
preview | full record— Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)