Date: 1676, 1703
"This is also abundantly proved by the Experience of all such, as being secretly touched with the Call of God's Grace unto them, do apply themselves to false Teachers, where the Remedy proves worse than the Disease; because, instead of knowing God, or the things relating to their Salvation aright...
preview | full record— Barclay, Robert (1648-1690)
Date: 1739
"And as the Author very well says, whose Name I've forgot, Man is in this World like a Bird upon a Bough, the Bough is fix'd to the Tree, he who is fix'd to the Tree follows good Precepts, good Precepts are better than fine Words, fine Words are found at Court, at Court are Courtiers, Courtiers f...
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller James (1706-1744); Molière (1622-1673)
Date: September 27, 1746
"Painful reflection! poyson to my mind!"
preview | full record— Hervey, John, second Baron Hervey of Ickworth (1696-1743)
Date: September 27, 1746
"A jealous daemon whispers in my breast."
preview | full record— Hervey, John, second Baron Hervey of Ickworth (1696-1743)
Date: September 27, 1746
"My virtue shows what 'twas the gods design'd, / By chance on Africk's clay they stamp'd a Roman mind."
preview | full record— Hervey, John, second Baron Hervey of Ickworth (1696-1743)
Date: 1762
"The unbridled Athamand, his sister's son, / In firm alliance with a noble princess, / Whom Persia's court had destin'd to his love, / (His tyrant passions brooking no controul,) / Demanded Zobeide as despotic master."
preview | full record— Cradock, Joseph (1742-1826)