Date: 1708
"Passion more substantial Courts our Reason, solid, persuasive, elegant, sublime, where ev'ry Sense crowds to the luscious Banquet, and ev'ry nobler Faculty's imploy'd"
preview | full record— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)
Date: 1712
"Oh Repose! thou Stranger to the Breasts of Lovers, when wilt thou return to bless me?"
preview | full record— Centlivre [née Freeman; other married name Carroll], Susanna (bap. 1669?, d. 1723)
Date: 1713
"The cautious Virgin, ignorant of Man, / No Glances threw, nor exercis'd the Fan, / Found Love a Stranger to her easie Breast, / And 'till the Wedding Night--enjoy'd her Rest."
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
Date: 1714
"If Pity dwells within your noble Breast, / (As sure it does) oh speak not to me thus!"
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1714
"Time presses, and a thousand crowding Thoughts / Break in at once; this Way and that they snatch, / They tear my hurry'd Soul. All claim Attention, / And yet not one is heard."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1715
I have a Thought--but wherefore said I one, / I have a thousand Thoughts all up in Arms, / Like populous Towns disturb'd at dead of Night, / That mixt in Darkness bustle to and fro, / As if their Business were to make Confusion.
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1715
"Love is a generous Volunteer; Lust a Mercenary Slave"
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: January 16, 1717
"Madam, excuse this Absence of Mind; my animal Spirits had deserted the Avenues of my Senses, and retired to the Recesses of the Brain, to contemplate a beautiful Idea. I could not force the vagrant Creatures back again into their Posts, to move those Parts of the Body that express Civility."
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Arbuthnot, John (bap. 1677, d. 1735)
Date: 1717
"Against my self my rebel Passions arm; / They bound within my Breast to meet this Victor."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: February 22, 1723
"If a single thought / Were tinctur'd with disloyalty, this hand / Shou'd pierce my heart to drive the rebel out."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)