Date: February 22, 1723
'Tis in vain to boast / That reason o'er the passions holds the rein, / When quite unman'd with such a tale."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
"The balm of sleep / Can ne'er refresh these eyes, 'till the pale hand / Of death shall draw their curtains, and exclude / The busy buzzing swarm of stinging thoughts."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
"Heav'ns! at the sight of that celestial face, / Each savage passion from the soul retires; / As wolves forsake the fold, when first the sun / Flames o'er the eastern hills."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
"Vouchsafe thy wretched lord a last embrace; / Whose soul is ready wing'd to wait on thine."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: 1724
"My lord, this seems th' extravagance of passion! / When anger rushes, unrestrain'd, to action, / Like a hot steed, it stumbles in its way!"
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1724
"Tho' the soft dove brood, gall-less, o'er your breast, / Yet let the wary serpent arm your mind."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1724
"When all at once / A thousand anxious Thoughts that slept by Day, / Swarm'd in my Brain, 'till it resembled Hell, / Hot, dark and hot: my sick Imagination, / Assisted by the Shades of Night, would give / A gloomy turn to each Idea there."
preview | full record— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
Date: 1724
"Those Reflections began to prey upon my Comforts, and lessen the Sweets of my other Enjoyments: They might be said to have gnaw'd a Hole in my Heart before; but now they made a Hole quite thro' it; now they eat into all my pleasant things; made bitter every Sweet, and mix'd my Sighs with every S...
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1726
"Ha, ha, ha, he is shaken, my dear Ringwood; this Man of Depth and Inquiry; he is shaken; his Reason, like an ill-managed Horse, starts under him: What is this haughty Guide of imperious Man, this sufficient Word, Wisdom."
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1727
"Some, with a dry and barren Brain, / Poor Rogues! like costive Lap-Dogs strain; / While others with a Flux of Wit, / The Reader and their Friends besh**t."
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)