Date: 1696
"For hitherto my Soul has been enslav'd to loose Desires, to vain deluding Follies, and shadows of substantial bliss: but now I wake with joy to find my Rapture Real."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1696
"Rebellious Reason, talk no more, / Of all my Slaves, I thee abhor."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1697
Wine and Passion may be governable
preview | full record— Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)
Date: 1697
Reason may rule at last (over wine and passion?)
preview | full record— Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)
Date: 1697
"The Soul that awful Throne of Thought, That sacred Seat of Contemplation."
preview | full record— Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)
Date: 1697
"When your amazing Jealousy's my Judge, the worst of Villains."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1700
"Therefore, Faith, and it's Twin-sister, Hope, must rule your Reason."
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1700
"Love will resume his Empire in our Breasts, and every Heart, or soon or late, receive and readmit him as its lawful Tyrant"
preview | full record— Congreve, William (1670-1729)
Date: 1700
"Tho' I'm convinc'd she lov'd me not, I can't / Banish her Image from my Love-sick mind."
preview | full record— Centlivre [née Freeman; other married name Carroll], Susanna (bap. 1669?, d. 1723)
Date: 1701
"My Reason's conquer'd by more powerful Love, / Who rules as Tyrant in my captiv'd Breast."
preview | full record— Sherburne, Sir Edward (bap. 1616, d. 1702)