Date: 1720
"Nay more, when thou art dead, I won't leave thy Soul in Quiet--for I will go streight to thy House, break open they Chests, and scatter thy Gold and Silver, which is thy Soul"
preview | full record— Molloy, Charles (d. 1767)
Date: 1720
"Parthenia's breast is steel'd with real scorn"
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
Date: 1720
"Hence Superstition, that tormenting guest, / That haunts with fancy'd fears the coward breas;"
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
Date: 1720
"The extream Idle have no Goust to any Thing but sauntering, which more effectually wearies the Mind and Body than Exercise and Toil."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1720
"Ah vile Heart, more obdurate and harder than Adamant! upon this cruel Anvil was forged the Chains that bound up my unlucky Destiny!"
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1721
"This, of all Vice, does most debase the Mind, / Gold is itself th'Allay to Human-kind."
preview | full record— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)
Date: 1722
"No Man can boast a God-like Mind, / From that Infernal Dross refin'd; / By Nature all are Base"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1722
"Furnish'd with nothing but a faithless Breast, / Where only filthy Lusts and Passions dwell, Like Dirt and Cobwebs in a Hermet's Cell."
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1722
"And here indeed I have been often put upon a serious Consideration, how such a Heap of Pultis like Matter, a kind of Quag or Bog, and which as Sydenham observes, carries so little Analogy in its Form, and appears seemingly so unlikely to manage an Office of Intelligence, should yet be qualified ...
preview | full record— Turner, Daniel (1667-1741)
Date: 1722
"Or that as the Rays of Light from the Sun are instantly transmitted to all the sublunary Parts of the great World; so hence the Sensitivum Quid, in like Manner, through the nervous Tubes, having here their Origin, should as suddenly as those Rays darted from that great Luminary, be likewi...
preview | full record— Turner, Daniel (1667-1741)