Date: 1763
"And short-liv'd o'er the heart is passion's reign"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: w. 1764, published 1820
"Yet, why repine? What, though by bonds confined, / Should bonds enslave the vigour of the mind?"
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: December 6, 1765
One may fell Love's vengeful Shaft transfix her heart "And yield to [it] the Empire of [her] Soul]
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1765
"By reason's standard, then, you judge amiss / Of those whose legislator is caprice."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1767
"Be rul'd by reason for your beauty's sake."
preview | full record— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Date: 1768
"Hope and fear alternate rising, / Strive for empire o'er my heart."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1769
"I refused, saying, that, as I was resolved he should in every point be the aggressor, he should fire first; he did, and missed me, and on my soul I believe designedly; for by the changes in his countenance, I could perceive that grief, and not anger, was then the predominant passion in his mind."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1769
One may banish from her heart a hopeless passion
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1769
"And still my soul they [cares] hold in pain, / Their cruel empire to maintain."
preview | full record— Fergusson, Robert (1750-1774)