Date: 1702
While Reason governs "all within's at Rest; / No Stormy Passion Revels in the Breast"
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1710
"My design is to speak of no other kind of LOVE but that which Beauty begets in the Appetite, and of those various Storms and Emotions it raiseth both in the Soul and Body."
preview | full record— Tipper, John (1663–1713)
Date: 1726, 1753
"Boundless desire, aw'd hope, and doubtful joy, / Stormy, by turns, the veering heart employ; / Sick'ning, in fancy's sun-shine, now, we faint, / And licence wounds us deeper, than restraint."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1726, 1753
"But I have err'd; and, with delirious aim, / Would picture motion, and imprison flame. / He, who can light'ning's flash, to colours, bind, / May paint love's influence, on the burning mind."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1728
"When Love in an impetuous Torrent flows, / How vainly Reason would its Force oppose; / Hurl'd down the Stream, like Flowers before the Wind, / She leaves to Love, the Empire of the Mind."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1778
Stocks and mercury may stand "All on the elevation, madam, as if they kept time with my passion."
preview | full record— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)