Date: 1713
"The Stoical Scheme of Supplying our Wants by lopping off our Desires, is like cutting off our Feet when we want Shoes."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: 1720
"Severity makes more Hypocrites than any Sort of Discipline; streight lacing the Body may make us good Shapes, but there's no streight lacing our Minds."
preview | full record— Shadwell, Charles (fl. 1692-1720)
Date: 1742
"A night that glooms us in the noon-tide ray, / And wraps our thought, at banquets, in the shroud."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)