For those of you who need it, I just updated the sources for Johnson's Dictionary (1755), Chamber's Cyclopaedia (1728), and Ripa's Iconologia, an English translation (I also noted some potentially relevant images from Ripa for various papers in case of interest, and included Figure #s to make it a bit easier).
Since Johnson's Dictionary can be a beast, here's a few tidbits. He usually includes a definition, with quotes below to illustrate. (He often uses the quotes he chooses to try to inculcate, or teach, readers morality, so don't be surprised if they're a little...tame...in relationship to what we've been seeing...
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DESI'RE. n. [desir Fr. deseo, Ital., desiderium, Lat.] With eagerness to obtain or enjoy.
--"Drink provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance." Shakespeare's Macbeth.
--Desire's the vast extent of human mind
It mounts above, and leaves poor hope behind. Dryden.
--Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything, whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it. --Locke.
--It is in a man's power only to observe what the ideas are that take their turns in his understanding, or else to direct the sort, and call in such as he has a desire, or use of. --Locke.
To DESI'RE. v.a.
1. To wish; to long for; to covet.
--Thou shalt not desire the silver or gold. Deutr. vii. 25
2. To express wishes; to appear to long.
--Jove beheld it with a desiring look. --Dryden.
3. To ask; to intreat.
--Sir, I intreat you home with me to dinner. /—I humbly do desire your grace of pardon; / I must away this night. Shksp. Merchant of Venice.
DESI'RER. n. One that is eager of any thing; a wisher.
DESI'ROUS adj. Full of desire; eager; longing after; wishing for.
--The same piety which maketh them that are in authority desirous to please and resemble God by justice, inflameth every way men of action with zeal to do good. Hooker.
--Be not desirous of his dainties; for they are deceitful meat. Prov. xxiii. 3.
--Men are drowsy and desirous to sleep before the fit of an ague [a sickness], and yawn and stretch. Bacon's Natural History. No. 296.
--Adam the while,
Waiting desirous her return, had wove
Of choicest flow'rs a garland. Milton's Paradise Lost
--Conjugal affection
Prevailing over fear, and timorous doubt
Hath led me on, desirious to behold
Once more thy face. Milton's Agonistes.
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LOVE, v.a.
1. To regard with passionate affection, as that of one sex to the other. [heteronormativity, even in the 18th-C :)]
"Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to love.
—It is to be made all of sighs and tears;
It is to be made all of faith and service;
It is to be all made of fantasy,
All made of passio; and all made of wishes;
All adoration, duty and obedience;
All humbleness, all patience, all impatience;
All purity, all trial, all observance. —Shakesp. As you like it.
--I could not love I'm sure
One who in love were wise. —Cowley
--The jealous man wishes himself a kind of deity to the person he loves; he would be the only employment of her thoughts. —Addison's Spectator No. 170
2. To regard with the affection of a friend. (quotes omitted)
3. To regard with parental tenderness.
4. To be pleased with.
—Fish used to salt water delight more in fresh; we see that salmon and smelts love to get into rivers, though against the stream. --Bacon's Natural Hist. No. 703.
--He loved my worthless rhimes. --Cowley
5. To regard with reverent unwillingness to offend.
--Love the Lord thy God with all thine heart. Deut. vi. 5.
1. The passion between the sexes.
2. Kindness; goodwill; frinedship.
3. Courtship
--Demitrius made love to Nedar's daughter Helena and won her soul. —Shkpr Midsummer Night's Dream.
—The enquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, the preference of it; and the belief of truth, the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
4. Tenderness; parental care.
5. Liking; inclination to; as the love of one's country.
6. Object beloved.
--Open the temple gates until my love. --Spenser.
--To live with thee, and be thy love. —Shakespeare
7. Lewdness.
--He is not lolling on a lewd love bed, but on his knees at meditation. --Shakspr. Rich. III.
8. Unreasonable liking.
9. Fondness; concord.
10. Principle of union.
12. A word of endearment.
13. Due reverence to God.
14. A kind of thin silk stuff.
LOVE SICK, adj. Disordered with love; languishing with amorous desire.
--See, on what shoar inhabits purple spring,
Where nightingales their lovesick ditties sing. —Dryden.
--To the dear mistress of my love sick mind.
Her swain a pretty present has design'd. —Dryden's Virgil
--Of the reliefs to ease a lovesick mind,
Flavia prescribes despair. —Granville
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