Date: 1705
"It is true indeed, we may be tempted to our Perdition under a fair and false Appearance of Religion, which commonly proceeds from the Discontentments of Life, or from some Capricio or Fancy of the Brain: And therefore it is very necessary to sound to the bottom of Mens Hearts, to know whether th...
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1706
"'Till then be kind, and leave me to my self; / Leave me to vent the Fulness of my Breast, / Pour out the Sorrows of my Soul alone, / And sigh my self, if possible, to Peace."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1707
"Lost in Labyrinths of Love, / My Breast with hoarded Vengeance burns, / While Fear and Rage / With Hope engage, / And rule my wav'ring Soul by turns."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1708, 1714
"'Twas a sign that this Philosopher believ'd there was a good Stock of Visionary Spirit originally in Human Nature."
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)
Date: 1708, 1714
"Something there will be of Extravagance and Fury, when the Ideas or Images receiv'd are too big for the narrow human Vessel to contain."
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)
Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"Hell trembles at the Sight, and hides its Head / In utmost Darkness, while on Earth each Heart, / Like mine, is fill'd with Peace and Joy unutterable."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"Find out, my Soul, in thy rich Store of Thought, / Somewhat more Great, more Worthy of thy self; / Or let the mimick Fancy shew its Art, / And paint some pleasing Image to delight me."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1708
"But to return, and speak something more fully concerning the Opinion of those who account for this kind of generation; They tell us, that as soon as this Spirit was join'd to the Receptacle, all the other powers immediately, by the Command of God, submitted themselves to it."
preview | full record— Ockley, Simon (bap. 1679, d. 1720)
Date: 1708
"Now, opposite to this Receptacle, there arose another Bubble divided into three Receptacles by thin membranes, with passages from one to the other, which were fill'd with an aerial substance, not much unlike that which was in the first Receptacle, only the first was something finer; and in each ...
preview | full record— Ockley, Simon (bap. 1679, d. 1720)
Date: 1708
"Thus these three Receptacles were made in the same order which we have describ'd, and these were the first part of that great Mass which was form'd; now they stood in need of one another's assistance; the first wanted the other two as Servants, and they again the assistance and guidance of the f...
preview | full record— Ockley, Simon (bap. 1679, d. 1720)