Date: 1718
"And now the fair Ideas, which possest / Your Mind, by loose and vicious Thoughts opprest, / How will you wing your Way to Realms above, / And feast your Soul with Extasies of Love"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1718
"Alma, They strenuously maintain, / Sits Cock-horse on Her Throne, the Brain; / And from that Seat of Thought dispenses / Her Sov'reign Pleasure to the Senses."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: w. 1719, 1951
"By fortitude of mind he conquest gains / O're sordid pleasures and imagind pains."
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: 1719
"She freely gave him up her conquer'd Heart"
preview | full record— Breval, John Durant (1680/81-1738)
Date: 1719
"A thousand Fears invade / And fill my Mind with Pain"
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1719
"Than from this Mind, O! venerable Shade, / Th'Impression be eras'd thy Words have made."
preview | full record— Breval, John Durant (1680/81-1738)
Date: 1719
"So perfect Gold no more excells the Brass, / Than Love of Soul doth Love of Body pass."
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1719
One may be "Beneath a spreading Poplar's Shade, / By no uneasy Passions press'd, (Which now in Crowds insult my Breast)"
preview | full record— Pack, Richardson (1682-1742)
Date: 1719
"He forms our generals for the field, / With all their dreadful skill; / Gives them his awful sword to wield, / And makes their hearts of steel."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1719
"In you he liv'd, with yours his Soul was mixt, / As meeting Streams that flow promiscuous on."
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)


