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Date: 1700, 1705
"Let either side abate of their Demands, / And both submit to Reason's high Commands, / For which way ere the Conquest shall encline, / The Loss Britannia will at last be thine."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1700, 1705
"Wit is a Flux, a Looseness of the Brain, / And Sense-abstract has too much Pride to reign."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1700, 1705
"Wit is a King without a Parliament, / And Sense a Democratick Government."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
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: 1709 [1708]
"With Wishes rais'd, with Jealousies opprest / (Alternate Tyrants of the Human Breast) / By one great Tryal He resolves to prove / The Faith of Woman, and the Force of Love."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
