Date: Saturday, June 28, 1712
"By this means they awaken other Ideas of the same Sett, which immediately determine a new Dispatch of Spirits, that in the same manner open other Neighbouring Traces, till at last the whole Sett of them is blown up, and the whole Prospect or Garden flourishes in the Imagination."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1713
"What think you, old Heart of Oak, shall Experience supply the want of Youth?"
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
Date: 1713
"Have not I a bonny Complexion, my Heart of Oak? dost thou not trace the Remains of Beauty through every Feature?"
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
Date: 1714
"Was our Reason given / For such a Use! to be thus puff'd about / Like a dry Leaf, an idle Straw, a Feather, / The Sport of every whifling Blast that blows?"
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1705, 1714, 1732
"That these two Passions, in which the Seeds of most Virtues are contained, are Realities in our Frame, and not imaginary Qualities, is demonstrable from the plain and different Effects, that in spite of our Reason are produced in us as soon as we are affected with either."
preview | full record— Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733)