Date: March 30, 1716
"It often happens, that extirpating the love of glory, which is observed to take the deepest root in noble minds, tears up several virtues with it"
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Date: 1717
"These Instances, which true in Fact we find, / Apply we to the Culture of the Mind."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: 1717
"This Soil, in early Youth improv'd with Care, / The Seeds of gentle Science best will bear"
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: 1718
"Knowledge Divine they by degrees bestow'd, / And with blest Seed your Heart industrious sow'd, / Whence verdant Issues soon began to shoot; / A Bloom ensu'd, that promis'd generous Fruit."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1718
"Drawn by their Pray'r, from Heav'n descending Dews / Cheer the fair Plant, and Heat Divine infuse: / While watchful they destroy'd the springing Weeds, / Baneful to Virtue, which our Bosom breeds, / Nature's spontaneous Growth, that no Assistant needs."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1718
"A Blow of Virtues, all of heav'nly Kind, / Mingled their Beauties, and adorn'd your Mind."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1718
"You from your Breast must root Religion's Weed, / Not only sin, but disbelieve your Creed."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1718
"May not this cheering Breath, this soothing Air, / Nourish too fast Vain-Glory's secret Root, / And make its rank pernicious Branches shoot, / Till on your Mind they baneful Blossoms spread, / And drop malignant Dews on Virtue's tender Head?"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1718 [first published 1684-1694]
"For sottish ease, and a life wholly sedentary and given up to Idleness, spoils and debilitates, not only the Body but the Soul too: And as close Waters shadowed over by bordering Trees, and stagnated in default of Springs, so supply current and motion to them become foul and corrupt; so methinks...
preview | full record— Plutarch (c. 46-120)
Date: 1719
"Pray note, all this was the Fruit of a disturb'd Mind, an impatient Temper, made as it were desperate, by the long Continuance of my Troubles, and the Disappointments I had met in the Wreck I had been on Board of, and where I had been so near the obtaining what I so earnestly long'd for, viz. so...
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)