Date: 1700, 1705
"Wit is a Flux, a Looseness of the Brain, / And Sense-abstract has too much Pride to reign."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1700, 1705
"Abstracted-Wit 'Tis own'd is a Disease, / But Sense-abstracted has no Power to please."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1700, 1705
"Sense without Wit is Flegmatick and pale, / And is all Head, forsooth, without a Tail: / Wit without Sense is Cholerick and Red, / Has Tail enough indeed, but has no Head."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1700, 1705
"Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, / Will starve the Members, and distract the Head."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1700, 1705
"Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive, / Sense is the Vital Heat which Life and Form must give: / Wit is the Teeming Mother brings them forth, / Sense is the Active Father gives them Worth."
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Date: 1714 [1712, 1717]
"Her lively Looks a sprightly Mind disclose, / Quick as her Eyes, and as unfix'd as those."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: March 13, 1727
"And is not virtue in mankind / The nutriment that feeds the mind; / Upheld by each good action past, / And still continued by the last?"
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)