Date: 1713
"And yet methinks a Beam of Light breaks in / On my departing Soul."
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Date: 1713
"Why will you fight against so sweet a Passion, / And steel your Heart to such a World of Charms?"
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: July 23, 1703; 1714
"Time, I daily find, blots out apace the little Stock of my Mind, and has disabled me from furnishing all that I would willingly contribute to the Memory of that Learned Man.."
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1714
"The most, such Iron Hearts we are, and such / The base Barbarity of Humane Kind, / Hooting and Railing, and with Villainous Hands / Gathering the Filth from out the Common Ways, / To hurl upon her Head."
preview | full record— Gildon, Charles (1665-1724)
Date: 1714
"Joy of my Life, my dearest Shore, forbear / To wound my Heart with thy foreboding Sorrows."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1714
"So thou, my dearest, truest, best Alicia, / Vouchsafe to lodge me in thy gentle Heart, / A Partner there; I will give up Mankind, / Forget the Transports of encreasing Passion, / And all the Pangs we feel for its Decay."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1714
"Live! live and Reign for ever in my Bosom, / Safe and unrivall'd there possess thy own."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1714
"Are these the Proofs of Tenderness and Love? / These endless Quarrels, Discontents, and Jealousies, / These never ceasing Wailings and Complainings, / These furious Starts, these Whirlwinds of the Soul, / Which every other Moment rise to Madness?"
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1714
"Well then, I own my Heart has broke your Chains. / Patient I bore the painful Bondage long, / At length my generous Love disdains your Tyranny."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1714
"How fierce a Fiend is Passion? With what Wildness, / What Tyranny untam'd, it Reigns in Woman."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)