Date: 1722
"I believe my mistress herself has signed and sealed, in her heart, to Mr. Myrtle--did I not bid you kiss me but once and be gone?"
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1722
One's head and heart may be "on the rack" about something worrisome
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1722
"Have I then at last a father's sanction on my love? His bounteous hand to give and make my heart a present worthy of Bevil's generosity?"
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1722
"Had I spirits left to tell you of his actions, how strongly filial duty has suppressed his love, and how concealment still has doubled all his obligations, the pride, the joy of his alliance, sir, would warm you heart as he has conquered mine."
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Date: 1722
"Such an Author consulted in a Morning, sets the Spirit for the Vicissitudes of the Day, better than the Glass does a Man's Person"
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Date: 1726
"'Twould be a bad World with most of us, if Reason were always to rule."
preview | full record— Southerne, Thomas (1659-1746)
Date: 1726
One may be galled "with Reproaches and Contempt, more heavy, and corroding into my Soul, than the Load and Rust of my Irons eating into my Flesh? "
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Date: 1726
"I have so many Thoughts crowding in upon me, I don't know which first to speak to."
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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:"
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Date: March 24, 1729
"The Youth whom I to save wou'd die, / Surpasses all Desire; / Love's fatal Dart, enflames my Heart, / And sets me all on Fire."
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