Date: 1711
"These active Liquors, which Admission find / Thro' the strait Paths, and leave the coarse behind, / Swift to the inmost Rooms their Passage beat, / And crowd around the Soul's Imperial Seat."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1720
"For as in the Body Politick, the Prince, (whom Seneca calls the Soul of the Commonwealth.) receiveth no Passages of State, or false Ones, where there is Negligence, or Disability in those subjectate Inquirers, (whom Xenophon terms the Eyes and Ears of Kings.) In like Manner the Soul of Man being...
preview | full record— Hales, John (1584-1656)
Date: 1744
"Reason is guiltless! Will alone rebels."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"What, in that stubborn heart if I should find / New, unexpected witnesses against thee? / Ambition, Pleasure, and the Love of Gain!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"The witnesses are heard; the cause is o'er; / Let Conscience file the sentence in her court, / Dearer than deeds that half a realm convey."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"That tyrant, Hope, mark how she domineers: / She bids us quit realities for dreams; / Safety and peace, for hazard and alarm: / That tyrant o'er the tyrants of the soul."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)