Date: 1718
"Alma, They strenuously maintain, / Sits Cock-horse on Her Throne, the Brain; / And from that Seat of Thought dispenses / Her Sov'reign Pleasure to the Senses."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1719
"Discomposure of the Mind" must "be as great a Disability as that of the Body"
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1719
"At that very Word my Heart, as I thought, died within me, and I fell backwards upon the Side of my Bed where I sat, into the Cabbin."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1719
"[M]y Heart was as it were dead within me, partly with Fright, partly with Horror of Mind and the Thoughts of what was yet before me."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1719
"I say, I do not wonder that they bring a Surgeon with it, to let him Blood that very Moment they tell him of it, that the Surprize may not drive the Animal Spirits from the Heart, and overwhelm him."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1719
"I now began to consider seriously my Condition, and the Circumstance I was reduc'd to, and I drew up the State of my Affairs in Writing, not so much to leave them to any that were to come after me, for I was like to have but few Heirs, as to deliver my Thoughts from daily poring upon them, and a...
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1719
"[B]ut to see with what Fear I went forward, how often I look'd behind me, how I was ready every now and then to lay down my Basket, and run for my Life, it would have made any one have thought I was haunted with an evil Conscience, or that I had been lately most terribly frighted, and so indeed ...
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1719
"The Absence of an old Mistress makes room for a new one--Therefore I have blotted her from my Fancy, like a Painter that strikes one form out of his Cloth, to lay in another."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1720
Justice, the "Queen of Virtues" may poize the mind in "equal balance" so that "All different Graces soon will enter, / Like Lines concurrent to their Center"
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1720
"You'll weep, I know you will; no Iron Chains / Confine thy Heart, thy Breast no Oak retains."
preview | full record— Dart, John (d. 1730); Tibullus (c. 54-19 B.C.)