Date: February 22, 1723
"Let not your heart, / Where late her beauteous image was inshrin'd, / Be now immur'd with marble from her pray'r!"
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
"Heav'ns! at the sight of that celestial face, / Each savage passion from the soul retires; / As wolves forsake the fold, when first the sun / Flames o'er the eastern hills."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
Oh!--Ten thousand rebels arm, / Grief, horror, shame, distraction!--they besiege / The poor soul, wav'ring in the fort of life, / And wishing to surrender!"
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
"My Queen! my wife! the jewel of my soul!"
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
"O Sir! reflect, if thus / The bare recital wounds your fancy now, / A yet more dreadful pain may pierce your heart!"
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
"Can the Queen / Pierce to the close recesses of the soul? / Are thoughts there visible, like children's toys / Kept in a chrystal case?"
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
"Vouchsafe thy wretched lord a last embrace; / Whose soul is ready wing'd to wait on thine."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: 1723, 1732
"From whence we may learn that to perform a meritorious Action, it is not sufficient barely to conquer a Passion, unless it likewise be done from a laudable Principle, and consequently how necessary that Clause was in the Definition of Virtue, that our Endeavours were to proceed from a ratio...
preview | full record— Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733)
Date: 1723
"Having thus cleaned and polish'd the Soul, it becomes a pure Tabula Rasa, fit for the best or worst Impressions."
preview | full record— Marana, Giovanni Paolo (1642-1693); Anonymous [William Bradshaw (fl. 1700) or Robert Midgley (1655?-1723)?]
Date: 1780?
"Lust is the unbridled Horse of the Soul that has thrown its Rider."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)