Date: 1717, 1736
"Like Eastern Kings a lazy state they keep, / And close confin'd in their own palace sleep."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: January 1, 1760 - January 1, 1762; 1762
A sacred idea may be throned within the heart and "cherished with such fervency of regard, with such reverence of affection, as the devout anchorite more unreasonably pays to those sainted reliques that constitute the object of his adoration"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)