Date: 1691
"For wheresoe'r We look's an unknown Coast, / Our Mind perplex'd in endless Storms is tost; / And in th' Abyss all Wit and Learning lost."
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: Licens'd Decemb. 22. 1691
"She had proceeded thus far in a maze of Thought, when she started to find her self so lost to her Reason, and would have trod back again that path of deluding Fancy."
preview | full record— Congreve, William (1670-1729)
Date: 1692
"In like manner he thought some Ribs of Grashoppers would be acceptable to many, whose Brains are full of those skipping Animals, to cause a Spring in their own Meadows."
preview | full record— Gildon, Charles (1665-1724)
Date: 1697
Locke's readers are "led into a Wood of Idea's ... and there they are lost; pleasantly indeed, amongst Lights and Shades, and many pretty Landskips"
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)
Date: 1697
"Reluctant Sense declines the untrodden Path, / Tho aided both by Reason and by Faith."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1699, 1714
"'Tis thus, at last, that A MIND becomes a Wilderness; where all is laid waste, every thing fair and goodly remov'd, and nothing extant beside what is savage and deform'd."
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)