Date: 1715, 1727
"[A]ll the Faculties of my Soul and Body are her Slaves"
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1715
"Love is a generous Volunteer; Lust a Mercenary Slave"
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1715
"Love is a Court of Honour in the Heart"
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1715
Love may be a "scandalous Itching, a Rebellion in the Blood"
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1716
"Conscience only, that can see without Light, sits in the Areopagy and dark Tribunal of our Hearts, surveying our Thoughts and condemning their obliquities."
preview | full record— Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682)
Date: 1716
One's head may be "perpetually confounded with the Fumes of Ale and Faction"
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1717
"But that bright Daughter of eternal Day [Reason], / Holds in our mortal Frame a dubious Sway."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: 1717
"Yet banish'd from the Realms by Right [Reason's] own, / Passion, a blind Usurper, mounts the Throne."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: 1717
"But, they who have considered with care the foundation and circumstances of their actions, doubt of their freedom, and are even persuaded, that their reason and understanding are slaves that cannot resist the force which carries them along."
preview | full record— Collins, Anthony (1676-1729)
Date: 1717, 1736
"Like Eastern Kings a lazy state they keep, / And close confin'd in their own palace sleep."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)