Date: 1698
"In this Glass [her journal] she every Day dress'd her Mind, to this faithful Monitor she repair'd for Advice and Direction, compar'd the past with the present, judg'd of what would be by what had been, observ'd nicely the several successive Degrees of Holiness She got, and of humane Infirmity sh...
preview | full record— Atterbury, Francis (1663-1732)
Date: 1698
"This Lady's fancy is just Slip-Stocking-high; and she seems to want Sense, more than her Breakfast."
preview | full record— Collier, Jeremy (1650-1726)
Date: 1699
"Unstudy'd Knowledge only was design'd, / The rich Attire of Adam's glorious Mind."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1700
"I feel my Soul rise with my Pocket."
preview | full record— Burnaby, William (1673-1706)
Date: 1700, 1717
"This Helenus to great AEneas told, / Which I retain, e'er since in other Mould: / My Soul was cloath'd; and now rejoice to view / My Country Walls rebuilt, and Troy reviv'd anew, / Rais'd by the fall: Decreed by Loss to Gain; / Enslav'd but to be free, and conquer'd but to reign."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1700
"Better the Mind no Notions had retain'd, / But still a fair Unwritten Blank remain'd; / For now, who Truth from Falshood wou'd discern; / must first disrobe the Mind, and all Unlearn."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)