Date: 1697, 1700
"Nor think thy force too small, too weak thy Mind / Because to Clay unequally confined; / Its Power is wondrous Great; how small a Mass / Of Gold or Gems, exceeds vast Heaps of Brass?"
preview | full record— Manilius, Marcus (fl. 1st Century AD), Creech, Thomas (1659-1700)
Date: 1697, 1700
"And from the narrow limits of the Heart, / The Active Soul doth vigorous Life impart / To all the Limbs, its Sway the Members own, / Wide is its Empire from its petty Throne."
preview | full record— Manilius, Marcus (fl. 1st Century AD), Creech, Thomas (1659-1700)
Date: 1697
Wine and Passion may be governable
preview | full record— Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)
Date: 1697
Reason may rule at last (over wine and passion?)
preview | full record— Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)
Date: 1697
"The Soul that awful Throne of Thought, That sacred Seat of Contemplation."
preview | full record— Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)
Date: 1697
"When your amazing Jealousy's my Judge, the worst of Villains."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1697
"My Reason is in Health, and construes nothing ill from a distemper'd Friend."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1697
"What is it then that lights the Candle again, when it is put out?"
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)
Date: 1697
"You compare Cogitation in a Spirit, to Motion in a Body, and so Cessation from Thought in a a Spirit, must answer to Rest in a Body"
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)
Date: 1697
"If we shou'd observe Pythagoras his Rule, to call our selves to an account every Evening, for the Actions and Thoughts of that Day, I believe we shou'd find many vacant spaces within the compass of a Day, which we cou'd not fill up with Thoughts."
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)