Date: 1700
"All Hearts you Conquer, as you Conquer mine"
preview | full record— Hopkins, John (b. 1675)
Date: 1700, 1705
"Wit is a Standing-Army Government, / And Sense a sullen stubborn P---t."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1702
'Tis Lust, (not Love) and Reason, that are Foes
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1702
"But there is one soft Minute, when the Mind / Is left unguarded," during which "the wise Lover understanding right, /Steals in like Day upon the Wings of Light."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1703
" For, if with Modesty a Woman parts / She gains Contempt, when she wou'd conquer Hearts."
preview | full record— Oldmixon, John (1672/3-1742)
Date: 1703, 1718
"Hostile Desires fierce Wars repeat"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1703, 1718
"Darkness, like that in Central Caves beneath, / Like that, which spreads the lonesome Walks of Death, / Where never Ray one Inroad made, / The Rebels Mind did swift invade."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1704
"But Love, resistless Love my Soul invades; / Discretion this, Affection that perswades."
preview | full record— Tate, Nahum (c. 1652-1715)
Date: 1709
A Lady wounded in love may "strive to conquer Hearts, / And triumph o'er their Pain"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)