Date: 1696
"Look you, Sir, my Reason weighs this Injury, which is so light, it will not raise my Anger in the other Scale."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1696
"Can Fancy be a surer Guide to Happiness than Reason?"
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Date: 1697
"The Soul that awful Throne of Thought, That sacred Seat of Contemplation."
preview | full record— Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)
Date: 1697
"Many fleeting Thoughts pass through the Soul without Observation, and leave no Trace or Idea behind them"
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)
Date: 1697
"As when you make Cogitation in us to be like Motion in Matter, which receives its Motion from external Impression"
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)
Date: 1697
"Upon your Supposition That all our Thoughts perish in sound Sleep, and all Cogitation is extinct, we seem to have a new Soul every Morning."
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)
Date: 1697
"Her Mony may raise many a false pretended Passion, and young Women seldom want a little hardned Vanity to stamp it into Currant Love."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1697
"[T[hou shalt see me mould his heart in the palm of my Hand like soft Wax, till I make it bear what impression I please"
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1697
""All Ætna's Caves strove in his lab'ring Soul, / And Stygian Tempests in his veins did rowl""
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1697
"Its Springs divinely touch'd, his lab'ring Brain / Did this Celestial Vision entertain."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)