Date: 1701
"For I will here suppose the Soul, or Mind of Man, to be at first, rasa Tabula, like fair paper, that hath no connate Character or Idea's imprinted upon it (as that Learned Theorist Mr. Lock hath, I suppose, fully proved) and that it is not sensible of any thing at its coming...
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1632-1718)
Date: 1701
"But that little availed, for Artesia having in like sort opened the Device to Pamela, she (in whose mind Vertue governed with the Scepter of Knowledge) hating so horrible a Wickedness, and strait judging what was fit to do."
preview | full record— Sidney, Philip, Sir (1554-1586)
Date: 1701
"He [Good King Bacchus] does the chaos of the head refine, / And atom-thoughts jump into words by wine"
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1701
"Their brain's so cool, their passion seldom burns; / For all's condens'd before the flame returns; The fermentation's of so weak a matter, / The humid damps the fume, and runs it all to water."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1701
"And if a bottle does their brains refine, / It makes their wit as sparkling as their wine."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1701
"No man was ever yet so void of sense, / As to debate the right of self-defence; / A principle so grafted in the mind, / With nature born, and does like nature bind."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1701
"Nor can this right be less when national; / Reason which governs one, should govern all."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: May 1701
"I am gone--oh my Transported Soul,... That like a Bird fain to its nest wou'd fly, / But finds all Plunder'd where it us'd to lye."
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1701
"So when against the Tide the Sailor toils / to force his loaded Bark, the Current foils / His Pains, down Stream the master'd Vessel's drove"
preview | full record— Sherburne, Sir Edward (bap. 1616, d. 1702)
Date: 1701
Reason may be "conquer'd by more powerful Love"
preview | full record— Sherburne, Sir Edward (bap. 1616, d. 1702)