Date: April 18, 1721
"O the Medley / Of Right and Wrong! the Chaos in my Brain! / He should, and should not dye-- / You should Obey, / And not Obey.--It is a Day of Darkness, / Of Contradictions, and of many Deaths."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: April 18, 1721
"I told her, from your Childhood you was wont / On any great Surprize, but chiefly then / When cause of Sorrow bore it Company, / To have your Passion shake the Seat of Reason, / A momentary Ill, which soon blew o'er."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: April 18, 1721
"If cold white Mortals censure this great Deed, / Warn them, they judge not of superior Beings / Souls made of Fire, and Children of the Sun, / With whom Revenge is Virtue."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1721
"Her Mind well suited the fair Cabinet that contained it; she was humble, generous, unaffected, yet learned, wise, modest, and prudent above her Years or Sex; gay in Conversation, but by Nature thoughtful; had all the Softness of a Woman, with the Constancy and Courage of a Hero: In fine, her Sou...
preview | full record— Aubin, Penelope (1679?-1731?)
Date: October 15, 1772
"If thou refuse our vows to hear / And steel thy heart to ev'ry pray'r, / A cruel frozen maid"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1722
"nor is my heart nae mair than yours of steel"
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: 1722
"An empire, which thy [Jesus'] armies did not gain, / Not purchas'd by the blood of thousands slain, / But by thy own; an empire o'er the mind / Erected, and for heavenly ends design'd."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1722
"No impious Itch of Empire fires our Mind, / Nor are our Hearts to those base Thoughts inclin'd."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Gilbertfield (c. 1665-1751)
Date: 1722
"Yon Knight said he, in War is so expert, / And has it so engraven on his Heart, / That he unto a very Point does know, / Each Stratagem, and nice Punctilio."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Gilbertfield (c. 1665-1751)
Date: 1722
" The Print of Love new-stamp'd his ductile Breast, / And with soft Characters his Soul Imprest"
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Gilbertfield (c. 1665-1751)