Date: 1720
"Severity makes more Hypocrites than any Sort of Discipline; streight lacing the Body may make us good Shapes, but there's no streight lacing our Minds."
preview | full record— Shadwell, Charles (fl. 1692-1720)
Date: First performed February 17, 1720.
"O self-destroying Monster! that art blind, / Yet putt'st out Reason's Eyes, that still shou'd guide thee, / Then plungest down some Precipice unseen, / And art no more!--Hear me, all-gracious Heav'n!"
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: First performed February 17, 1720.
"It wounds my Heart / To think thou follow'st but to share my Ruin."
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1722
One's head and heart may be "on the rack" about something worrisome
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1730
"Enlarge the Purlieu of my narrow Mind: / In Colours, plain, expose to Reason's Eye, / What, yet, to Reason Nature does deny"
preview | full record— Smedley, Jonathan (1671-1729)
Date: 1704-5; 1731
"If a man's Body be under confinement, or he be impotent in his Limbs, he is then deprived of his bodily Liberty: And for the same Reason, if his Mind be blinded by sottish Errors, and his Reason over-ruled by violent Passions; is not This likewise plainly as great a Slavery and as ...
preview | full record— Clarke, Samuel (1675-1729)
Date: 1732
"With ev'ry Moment [Music] gives new Passions Birth"
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1742
A poet may "to the Eye of Judgement ever shine"
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1747
The soul may let in "the baneful poison of repeated sin" as the snuff-taker does snuff
preview | full record— Teft, Elizabeth (fl. 1741-7)
Date: 1747
The mind may be wounded
preview | full record— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)