Date: 1714 [1712, 1717]
"Just in that instant, anxious Ariel sought / The close Recesses of the Virgin's thought."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715
"No Beams of softning Pity touch thy Breast, / Too vile a Cell to harbour such a Guest."
preview | full record— Brown, Thomas (bap. 1663, d. 1704)
Date: 1715
"But now you'll enquire, can they all quarter there? / Why, Madam, my Heart's large enough, never fear. / There's room for my Phillis, / And soft Amarillis: / And Cælia the Fair, / Who need not despair / Of a good Lodging there:"
preview | full record— Brown, Thomas (bap. 1663, d. 1704)
Date: 1715
"No crafty Machiavelian Arts possest / The pious Closets of his Royal Breast"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1715
"Or can they ought that's mean, when God has set / A Jewel in their earthly Cabinet?"
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)
Date: 1716
"If midst of Thoughts that crowd into thy Mind, / The Care of absent Friends a Place can find, / Retire a while from Warlike Noise and Throng / Into thy inmost Tent, and listen to my Song."
preview | full record— Monck [née Molesworth], Mary (1677?-1715)
Date: 1716
"Led on by Reason, that blind Guide o'th'Mind. / Thro Labyrinths of Thought, and envious Ways, / It will conduct you to the fatal Place, / And leave you there."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 1717
"I render back the Treasure of thy Heart: / When in some new fair Breast it finds a Room, And I shall lie neglected in my Tomb; / Remember, oh! remember, the fair She / Can never love thee, darling Youth! like me."
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1717
The brain is a "Magazine" that Fevers may seize "To calcine all her beauteous Image."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: 1717, 1736
"Most souls, 'tis true, but peep out once an age, / Dull sullen pris'ners in the body's cage."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)