Date: 1710, 1734
"[I]deas are not any how and at random produced, there being a certain order and connexion between them, like to that of cause and effect: there are also several combinations of them, made in a very regular and artificial manner, which seem like so many instruments in the hand of nature, that bei...
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1710
"He was confirm'd in his Conjecture, when he heard the beautiful Virgin (after having by a Pressure of her Hand to her Breast, re-seated that lovely Heart in its native Throne) caress and embrace the melancholly Beauty whom he found to be Solitude, who then lifted up her languishing...
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1710
Charms may be sufficient of themselves to gain a Conquest over any Heart that is not already ingaged
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1710
A bishop may indulge "amorous Vein" and make "as many Conquests over the Bodies of the fair Sex, as of their Souls"
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1710
"But now, my Lord, I am coming to the melancholly Part of fair Agnes's Description, her Mind, 'twas all a Blot, nor had it ever been otherways; she had no Notion of Things, no Discourse, no Memory."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1710
"In that Particular I was sure my fair Agnes was exceeded by none; her Charms were faultless and peculiar, but her Mind was a Rock upon which my Resolution struck."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1710
"Blows only pass 'twixt Porters and their Trulls, / Where brutish Rage, instead of Reason, rules, / Those of our Rank, altho' the Cause be great, / Should scorn to jar at such a scoundrel Rate."
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1710
When passion cools, "Reason may again bear Rule"
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Date: 1710
"Curse on that foppish Name, that empty Sound ['Honour'], / In whose dark Maze Mens Intellects are drown'd."
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1710
Honour is a "Maggot that infects the giddy Brains / Of Cowards, Foold, rich Knaves, and Curtizans"
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