Date: 1726, 1753
"But I have err'd; and, with delirious aim, / Would picture motion, and imprison flame. / He, who can light'ning's flash, to colours, bind, / May paint love's influence, on the burning mind."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1727, 1728
A young man may be "Possess'd of every virtue, grace, and art, / That claims just empire o'er the female heart"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1728
"When Love in an impetuous Torrent flows, / How vainly Reason would its Force oppose; / Hurl'd down the Stream, like Flowers before the Wind, / She leaves to Love, the Empire of the Mind."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1728
"Can gold calm passion, or make reason shine? / Can we dig peace or wisdom from the mine?"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1728
"A Lover, when he is admitted to Cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the Motions of his Mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he shou'd be the Shadow of her Mind."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1728
"I know not why it is, but certainly a Woman is the least liable to play the Fool here; perhaps, the Hurry of Diversions and Company keep the Mind in too perpetual a Motion to let it fix on one Object."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1728
"Or canst Thou judge, by partial Passion blind?"
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)
Date: 1735
"In vain my weeping eyes thy features traced / (And features speak the passions of the mind)".
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 1737
One shouldn't "dread th' Effects of all their treach'rous Arts, / Their boasted Stratagems to conquer Hearts"
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1727, 1739
"My Heart, no Stranger to the Guest [Love], / Flutter'd, and labour'd in my Breast"
preview | full record— Broome, William (1689-1745); Hesiod