Date: 1711

"These Spirits rais'd from Choler to the Brain, / Like those extracted from the basest Grain, / Impure and crude, produce unnatural Heat, / And an ignoble Flame of Life create."

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

Date: 1711

"Fierce is their [natives of hot climates] Rage, and all the Savage Beast / Reigns in their Soul, and haunts their desart Breast; / Where Hate, Revenge, and Jealousy are bred, / And livid Envy hides her spleenful Head."

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

Date: 1712, 1796

"But what had been already said, / On David's mind a deep impression made."

— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)

Date: 1712, 1796

"But what he from the Lord had to him said, / On David's heart a deep impression made"

— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)

Date: 1712, 1796

"Her body delicate, wherein enshrin'd, / As in its temple, dwelt a virtuous mind."

— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)

Date: 1712, 1796

"Small hopes he had, yet could not choose but try / His father's stormy mind to pacify."

— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)

Date: 1712, 1796

"He special care would of his safety take, / Both for his own, and for his father's sake, / Whose well-deservings of him, he should find, / Were deeply graven in a grateful mind."

— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)

Date: 1712, 1796

"And, with a stormy mind and martial heat, / March'd on, bestowing many a direful threat / On Nabal now, who single must not fall, / But he, and his own family withal."

— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)

Date: 1712, 1796

"How dangerous to let the Devil catch / The mind a roving from its inward watch!"

— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)

Date: 1712, 1796

"What home-bred mischief on himself could fall, / Which could a worthy mind more deeply gall?"

— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)