Date: 1700
"August and Open, as the Hero's Mind, / Be her capacious Courts design'd."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1716
"Their Conscience is a Worm within, / That gnaws them Night and Day."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1724-6
"Even the men of business, who are really so when in London; whether it be at the Exchange, the Alley, or the Treasury-Offices, and the Court; yet here they look as if they had left all their London thoughts behind them, and had separated themselves to mirth and good company; as if they came hith...
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)