Date: 1700, 1705
"Let either side abate of their Demands, / And both submit to Reason's high Commands, / For which way ere the Conquest shall encline, / The Loss Britannia will at last be thine."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
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
"Wit is a King without a Parliament, / And Sense a Democratick Government."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1700, 1705
"Wit, like the French, wher'e'er it reigns destroys, / And Sense advanc'd is apt to Tyrannize."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1700, 1705
"Wit is a Standing-Army Government, / And Sense a sullen stubborn P---t."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1701
"Nor can this right be less when national; / Reason which governs one, should govern all."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1702
Reason has a law that may be transgressed by vile wretches
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1702
"They're not Love's Subjects, but the Slaves of Lust, / Nor is their Punishment so great, as just."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1702
The "dull Remains of Fear" may be banished [from the mind?]
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1702
Reason has "an Empire of a nobler kind, / [her] regal Seat's in the celestial Mind"
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)