Date: 1714
"The most, such Iron Hearts we are, and such / The base Barbarity of Human Kind, / With Insolence and lewd Reproach pursu'd her, / Hooting and Railing, and with Villainous Hands / Gathering the Filth from out the common Ways, / To hurl upon her Head."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: First performed February 17, 1720.
"Then say, Eudocia, / If, like a Soul anneal'd in purging Fires, / After whole Years thou see'st me white again, / When thou, ev'n thou shalt think."
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: April 18, 1721
"Alvarez has a Heart of Steel."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: April 18, 1721
"My Lord, you know his Heart is Steel, / 'Tis fixt, 'tis past, 'tis absolute Despair."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: February 22, 1723
"We cheat the world / With florid outside 'till we meet surprize; / Then conscience, working inward like a mole, / Crumbles the surface, and reveals the dirt / From which our actions spring."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
"Nature on their unpolish'd marble prints / Much tenderer sentiments, than some can boast / Who call them barbarous."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
"Aided by this brave friend, whose soul is steel'd / With dauntless resolution, though the ghosts / Of all her race rise grinning from the tomb, / And in their cause auxiliar furies join; / Intrepid we'll persue our bold career; / Pitch the sure toils, and rouze the fated deer."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
"I thought my heart was arm'd with adamant / Against remorse, but nature fools me now; / A faint cold shiv'ring seizeth every limb."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
"Let not your heart, / Where late her beauteous image was inshrin'd, / Be now immur'd with marble from her pray'r!"
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
"My Queen! my wife! the jewel of my soul!"
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)