Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"As solid Shores contain the liquid Seas, / Just so the Stomach, a soft watry Mass, / Stagnates beneath and fills the lower Space: / Here, Winds, and Rains, and humid Vapours lie, / And these exhal'd with Heat, all upwards fly: / As mantling Clouds conceal the fickly Sun, / Dissolve in Dew and dr...
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"Black Night comes on, and interrupts the Day, / E'er it can chase the Mists and Fogs away; / The Dregs of Flesh and Drossy Lees, o'errun / The Soul, and weigh the strugling Spirit down:"
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1712, 1796
"Small hopes he had, yet could not choose but try / His father's stormy mind to pacify."
preview | full record— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)
Date: 1712, 1796
"And, with a stormy mind and martial heat, / March'd on, bestowing many a direful threat / On Nabal now, who single must not fall, / But he, and his own family withal."
preview | full record— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)
Date: 1712, 1796
"Unsteady nature, varying like the wind, / Hurries to each extreme th'unstable mind; / At sea becalm'd, we wish some brisker gales / Would on us rise, and fill our limber sails: / We have our wish; and straight our skiff is toss'd / So high, we are in danger to be lost."
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Date: 1723
"Can Lictors able in Dispute dispell / The Clouds of Errour that involve the Mind, within?"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1733-4
"Better for Us, perhaps, it might appear, / Were there all harmony, all virtue here; / That never air or ocean felt the wind; /That never passion discompos'd the mind: / But All subsists by elemental strife; / And Passions are the Elements of life. "
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1733-4
"On Life's vast ocean diversely we sail, / Reason the card, but Passion is the gale."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1733-4
"A mightier Pow'r the strong direction sends, / And sev'ral Men impels to sev'ral ends. / Like varying winds, by other passions tost, / This drives them constant to a certain coast."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1743
"Still spread a healing mist before the mind; / And lest we err by Wit's wild dancing light, / Secure us kindly in our native night."
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