Date: 1694, 1704
"Present peace and satisfaction of mind, and unexpressible joy and pleasure flowing from the testimony of a good conscience."
preview | full record— Tillotson, John (1630–1694)
Date: 1694
"Wine is strong, and Kings are strong, but a Beautiful Woman fixes her unshaken Empire in the hearts of her Admirers, when all things totters."
preview | full record— Dunton, John (1659–1732)
Date: 1694, 1708
"But wretched thou, whoe'er my rival art, / That fondly boasts an empire o'er her heart."
preview | full record— Yalden, Thomas (1670-1736)
Date: c. 1695-8 [published 1907]
"You o'er my heart were born to reign / And bravely took it by Invasion."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1695
"But 'tis not Worldly Empire he design'd, / His Scepter is his Grace, his Throne the Mind."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1695
"To pull all bold Usurping Passions down, / And settle Reason in its ancient Throne."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1695
"His Pleasure sway'd the Empire of her mind."
preview | full record— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730)
Date: 1695
"They did with Wine and Noise the Method find, / To Calm a Conscious, self-revenging Mind. / To lay asleep th' uneasie Judge within, / Till they with Care and Pains, grew bold in Sin."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1695
"[T]he priests, every where, to secure their empire, having excluded reason from having any thing to do in religion"
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1696
Fancy may over-rule reason
preview | full record— Granville, George, Baron Lansdowne (1666-1735)