Date: 1711
"These Spirits rais'd from Choler to the Brain, / Like those extracted from the basest Grain, / Impure and crude, produce unnatural Heat, / And an ignoble Flame of Life create."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: Monday, March 3, 1712
"It were as little Hazard to be lost in a Storm, as to lye thus perpetually becalmed: And it is to no Purpose to have within one the Seeds of a thousand good Qualities, if we want the Vigour and Resolution necessary for the exerting them."
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: Saturday, June 7, 1712
"We should always act with great Cautiousness and Circumspection in Points, where it is not impossible that we may be deceived. Intemperate Zeal, Bigotry and Persecution for any Party or Opinion, how praiseworthy soever they may appear to weak Men of our own Principles, produce infinite Calamitie...
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1712
"The Crimson Jets rais'd with Elastic Force / Swift to the Seats of Sense pursue their Course; / Arterial Streams thro' the soft Brain diffuse, / And water all its Fields with vital Dews."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
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: 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: 1715
"Truth and Innocence: / A conscious Knowledg rooted in my Heart, / That to have sav'd my Country was my Duty."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: January 6, 1716
"As self-love is an instinct planted in us for the good and safety of each particular person, the love of our country is impressed on our minds for the happiness and preservation of the community."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: March 30, 1716
"It often happens, that extirpating the love of glory, which is observed to take the deepest root in noble minds, tears up several virtues with it"
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1718
"Knowledge Divine they by degrees bestow'd, / And with blest Seed your Heart industrious sow'd, / Whence verdant Issues soon began to shoot; / A Bloom ensu'd, that promis'd generous Fruit."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)