Date: 1710, 1714
"Fancy in the mean while carry'd her point: For she was absolute over the Monarch; and had been too little talk'd to by her-self, to bear being reprov'd in Company. The Prince grew sullen; turn'd the Discourse; abhor'd the Profanation offer'd to his Sovereign-Empress; deliver'd up his Thoughts to...
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)
Date: Thursday, December 20, 1711
"This Passion reigns more among bad Poets, than among any other Set of Men."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: Thursday, July 12, 1711
"I might here mention the Effects which this has upon all the Faculties of the Mind, by keeping the Understanding clear, the Imagination untroubled, and refining those Spirits that are necessary for the proper Exertion of our intellectual Faculties, during the present Laws of Union between Soul a...
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: Monday, March 3, 1712
"A Vice of a more lively Nature were a more desirable Tyrant than this Rust of the Mind, which gives a Tincture of its Nature to every Action of ones Life."
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)