Date: Thursday, July 14, to Saturday, July 16, 1709
"Her countenance is the lively picture of her mind, which is the seat of honour, truth, compassion, knowledge, and innocence."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard, and Joseph Addison
Date: From Thursd. Dec. 15. to Saturd. Dec. 17. 1709
"For this Reason I frequently look in at the Playhouse, in order to enlarge my Thoughts, and warm my Mind with some new Idea's, that may be serviceable to me in my Lucubrations."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1709
"He wou'd steal himself into her Soul, he wou'd make himself necessary to her quiet, as she was to his."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1709
"The lovely Youth knew punctually how to improve those first and precious Moments of good-fortune, whilst yet the Gloss of Novelty remain'd, whilst Desire was unsated, and Love in the high Spring-tide of full delight; having an early Forcast, a Chain of Thought, unusual at his Years, a length of ...
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1709
"O stamp upon my Soul / Some blissful Image of the fair Deceas'd / To call my Passions and my Eyes aside / From the dear breathless Clay."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1709, 1810
"Nothing can describe the soul: / 'Tis a region half unknown, / That has treasures of its own. / More remote from public view / Than the bowels of Peru; / Broader 'tis, and brighter far, / Than the golden Indies are; / Ships that trace the wat'ry stage / Cannot coast it in an age; / Harts, or hor...
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1709, 1810
"Yet the silly wand'ring mind, / Loth to be too much confin'd, / Roves and takes her daily tours, / Coasting round the narrow shores, / Narrow shores of flesh and sense, / Picking shells and pebbles thence: / Or she sits at fancy's door, / Calling shapes and shadows to her, / Foreign visits still...
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1709, 1810
"Never, never would she [the mind] buy / Indian dust, or Tyrian dye, / Never trade abroad for more, / If she saw her native store, / If her inward worth were known / She might ever live alone."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1709
"Crown me, and call the world my own, / The gold that binds my brows could ne'er my soul confine."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1710, 1714
"For Appetite, which is elder Brother to Reason, being the Lad of stronger Growth, is sure, on every contest, to take the advantage of drawing all to his own side."
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)