Date: 1700, 1717
"Then let not Piety be put to flight, / To please the tast of Glutton-Appetite; / But suffer inmate Souls secure to dwell, / Lest from their Seats your Parents you expel; / With rabid Hunger feed upon your kind, / Or from a Beast dislodge a Brother's Mind."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1706
"But FANCY, that unease Guest / Still holds a Lodging in our Beast; / She finds or frames Vexations still, / Her self the greatest Plague we feel."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"The Senses stand around; the Spirits roam / To seize and bring the fleeting Objects home: / Thro' every Nerve and every Pore they pass."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: w. 1703, 1712
"And all the Furies wake within their Breast."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: w. 1703, 1712
"Returning Thoughts in endless Circles roll, / And thousand Furies haunt his guilty Soul."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1714, 1735
" What cruel Dæmon haunts my tortur'd Mind? / Sure, if 'twere Love, I shou'd th'Invader find;"
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1715-1720
"Yet should the Fears that wary Mind suggests / Spread their cold Poison thro' our Soldier's Breasts, / My Javelin can revenge so base a Part, / And free the Soul that quivers in thy Heart."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
"Hector's Mind fluctuates every way, he is calling a Council in his own Breast, and consulting what Method to pursue."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
"[W]hat a Crowd of terrible Ideas in this one Simile!"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
"Tis the natural Discharge of a vast Imagination, heated in its Progress, and giving itself vent in this Crowd of Images"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)