Date: 1703, 1718
"Passions Subjection to their Guide disown, / Insult their Soveraign, and subvert his Throne"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1703, 1718
Fancy may "fickle reign in Reason's Seat, / And Thy wild Empire, Anarchy, uphold"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1703, 1718
Tyrant desires subject man to "various Servitude, and endless Change of Pain"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1705
"Polish'd in Courts, and harden'd in the Field, / Renown'd for Conquest, and in Council skill'd, / Their Courage dwells not in a troubl'd Flood / Of mounting Spirits, and fermenting Blood; / Lodg'd in the Soul, with Virtue over-rul'd, / Inflam'd by Reason, and by Reason cool'd, / In Hours of Peac...
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1706
"Not in the Court of Conscience, Sir."
preview | full record— Centlivre [née Freeman; other married name Carroll], Susanna (bap. 1669?, d. 1723)
Date: 1710, 1714
"As cruel a Court as the Inquisition appears; there must, it seems, be full as formidable a one, erected in our-selves; if we wou'd pretend to that Uniformity of Opinion which is necessary to hold us to one Will, and preserve us in the same Mind, from one day to another."
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)