Date: 1720
"If it should be enquir'd, how I was capable of hearing all this, and having no Impressions made upon my Mind by it, especially, when it so many ways suited my own Case, and the Condition of the former part of my Life; I shall answer that presently by it self."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1721
"To this, and all the Ages that succeeds: / His Actions are engrav'd in ev'ry Breast."
preview | full record— Pennecuik, Alexander (d. 1730)
Date: 1721
"My Heart do's like soft Wax relent, / And midst my Bowels flow"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1721
" Oh! seal me, stamp me on thy tender Mind, / And leave the strong Impression deep behind."
preview | full record— Croxall, Samuel (1688/9-1752); Nestor Ironside
Date: 1721
" And see how Nature, bountiful and kind, / Stamps the Paternal Image on his Mind"
preview | full record— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Date: 1721
"For who can hear the Lad complain, / And not participate and feel / His artless undissembled Pain, / Unless he has a Heart of Steel."
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: 1721
"Their Hearts made of Stone, or of Steel are, / That are not Adorers of KATE."
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: 1721
"This, of all Vice, does most debase the Mind, / Gold is itself th'Allay to Human-kind."
preview | full record— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)
Date: w. 1721 [published 1907]
"And if again, pray mind, Thy head and Mine / Are form'd and stuff'd quite diff'rent from each other; / *I n'er shal understand one single line,/ Thô I shou'd read thy Folio ten times over."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: w. 1721
"As running Streams their parted Waters spread / Adown the hill or thrô the flow'ry Mead* / Here rising bold and Turbulent in waves* / There sunk in Sand or sunk in Rocky Caves* / The human Eye may still collect and bring* / To their first Murmur and Original spring:* / So from the various...
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)