Date: 1717
"Against my self my rebel Passions arm; / They bound within my Breast to meet this Victor."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: February 22, 1723
"If a single thought / Were tinctur'd with disloyalty, this hand / Shou'd pierce my heart to drive the rebel out."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
Oh!--Ten thousand rebels arm, / Grief, horror, shame, distraction!--they besiege / The poor soul, wav'ring in the fort of life, / And wishing to surrender!"
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: 1724
"yet the soul, / Like a soft babe, inur'd to foolish fondness, / Is hard to wean from wailing."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1724
"My thoughts are furies all!--and turn upon me! / I feel their whips!--They lash me with remorse! / My brain grows hot!--Hell glows in my mad bosom!"
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1725
"What silly Notions crowd the clouded Mind, / That is thro' want of Education blind!"
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: 1726
"I have so many Thoughts crowding in upon me, I don't know which first to speak to."
preview | full record— Southerne, Thomas (1659-1746)
Date: 1726
"Come quickly to the rescue of my Love, / Transport me with the dear, dear Sight of you, / Far from the crowding Thoughts of what I owe / To Warcourt, for my Father, and my self:"
preview | full record— Southerne, Thomas (1659-1746)
Date: January 10, 1728.
"I scorn your Imputation, and your Menaces! The Narrowness of your Heart's your Monitor!"
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757); John Vanbrugh (1664-1726)
Date: January 10, 1728.
"I knew no Directors, but my Passions, no Master but my Will!"
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757); John Vanbrugh (1664-1726)