Date: 1705
A bullet may efface "The num'rous Lodgings, which did entertain / All Mem'ry's crowded Guests, and Fancy's aeiry Train."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1706
"But FANCY, that unease Guest / Still holds a Lodging in our Beast; / She finds or frames Vexations still, / Her self the greatest Plague we feel."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1707, 1709
"So fell Great Britains Orpheus in his Rage, / When Furies in his Breast began to howl, / And Cares that wait on Life's uncertain Stage, / Had quite untun'd his Soul."
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1707
"And while he makes my Soul his Guest, / My Bosom, Lord, shall be thy Rest."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1709
"What Passions in a Parent's Breast debate!"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1709
"Each Sectarist in his Breast believes he there / Has all that Popes ascribe to their Unerring Chair; / And, Unappealable, can there decide / All Truth,--His own Illuminated Guide."
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Date: 1709
"Ay me! Where roves my Fancy! What kind Dreams / Crowd with sweet Violence on my waking Mind!"
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1709, 1810
"Yet the silly wand'ring mind, / Loth to be too much confin'd, / Roves and takes her daily tours, / Coasting round the narrow shores, / Narrow shores of flesh and sense, / Picking shells and pebbles thence: / Or she sits at fancy's door, / Calling shapes and shadows to her, / Foreign visits still...
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"The Senses stand around; the Spirits roam / To seize and bring the fleeting Objects home: / Thro' every Nerve and every Pore they pass."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: w. c. 1709, 1711
"There are whom heav'n has blest with store of wit, / Yet want as much again to manage it; / For wit and judgment ever are at strife, / Tho' meant each other's aid, like man and wife."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)