Date: 1700, 1705
"Wit, like the French, wher'e'er it reigns destroys, / And Sense advanc'd is apt to Tyrannize."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1700, 1705
"Wit is a Standing-Army Government, / And Sense a sullen stubborn P---t."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1701
"Nor can this right be less when national; / Reason which governs one, should govern all."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1702
Reason has a law that may be transgressed by vile wretches
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1702
"They're not Love's Subjects, but the Slaves of Lust, / Nor is their Punishment so great, as just."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1702
The "dull Remains of Fear" may be banished [from the mind?]
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1702
Reason has "an Empire of a nobler kind, / [her] regal Seat's in the celestial Mind"
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1702
Reason rules with a "God-like, and a Peaceful Hand"
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1702
When Reason's "Pow'r is Despicable grown, / And Rebel Appetites Usurp my Throne, / The Soul no longer quiet Thoughts enjoys; / But all is Tumult, and Eternal Noise."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1702
"Love is the Monarch Passion of the Mind, / Knows no Superior, by no Laws confin'd; / But triumphs still, impatient of Controul, / O'er all the proud Endowments of the Soul."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)