Date: 1708
"Passions are too hurrying to last; Vapours that start from a Mercurial Brain, whose wild Chimera's flush the lighter Faculties, which tir'd i'th' vain pursuit of fancy'd Pleasures."
preview | full record— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)
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: 1713
"Are Ladies Hearts more hard than Stone, / Are Wolves and Bears less fierce?"
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
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
"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)