Date: 1730
"Before you think of Stamping your Seal upon a Lady's Heart, you must first fix it upon Parchment"
preview | full record— Odingsells, Gabriel (1690-1734)
Date: 1730
"[C]an thy Passions so out-strip thy Reason, to send thee wading through Falshood, Perjury, and Murther, after a flying Light which you can ne'er o'ertake!"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1730
"What dreadful havoc in the human breast / The passions make, when unconfin'd, and mad, / They burst, unguided by the mental eye, / The light of reason; which in various ways / Points them to good, or turns them back from ill."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1730
"O save me from the tumult of the soul! / From the wild beasts within!"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1730
"See there the ruins of the noble mind, / When from calm reason passion tears the sway."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1731
"Else, had thy labouring Heart, oppress'd with Meaning, / Shook, like an Earthquake, in Discharge of Passion."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1731
"Shalt thou inflame me thus,--Unseat my Soul; / Tear out wrong'd Patience from my bleeding Heart, / And work me into Tempest!"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1731
"Cou'd Reason's Force / Tear the unlicens'd Image from my Heart, / Or, patient, leave to Time, th'unhasten'd Means, / To bless my fierce Desires; Who knows what Chance, / Or Death, or Thought, or Woman's changeful Will, / Or my own conquer'd Wishes, may produce."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: June 1, 1732
"Oh! give me way, come all you Furies, come, / Lodge in th'unfurnish'd Chambers of my Heart, / My Heart which never shall be let again / To any Guest but endless Misery, / Never shall have a Bill upon it more."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: June 1, 1732
"Ha! Distraction wild / Begins to wanton in my unhing'd Brain: / Methinks I'm mad, mad as a wild March Hare; / My muddy Brain is addled like an Egg, / My Teeth, like Magpies, chatter in my Head; / My reeling Head! which akes like any mad."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)