Date: 1696

"Sir--Notwithstanding this provocation, I am calm; but were I like other Men, a Slave to Passion, shou'd not for-bear calling you Impertinent!"

— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)

Date: 1696

"For hitherto my Soul has been enslav'd to loose Desires, to vain deluding Follies, and shadows of substantial bliss: but now I wake with joy to find my Rapture Real."

— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)

Date: 1696

"Rebellious Reason, talk no more, / Of all my Slaves, I thee abhor."

— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)

Date: 1697

Wine and Passion may be governable

— Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)

Date: 1697

Reason may rule at last (over wine and passion?)

— Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)

Date: 1697

"The Soul that awful Throne of Thought, That sacred Seat of Contemplation."

— Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)

Date: 1697

"When your amazing Jealousy's my Judge, the worst of Villains."

— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)

Date: 1697

"Inexorable Hatred, Pride unmixt / Desp'rate Revenge, and Malice deeply fixt, / With Wrath from every Stain of Love refin'd / Reign'd uncontroul'd in his envenom'd Mind."

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

Date: 1697

"It reach'd the inmost Marrow of the Brain / Where we perceive our Pleasures, and our Pain. / There where the Soul upon her Throne abides, / And from our Sight conceal'd her Empire guides: / Do's various Orders various Tasks dispence, / To all th'inferiour Ministers of Sence."

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

Date: 1699

"Adam in his first state was made after the Image of God, so that his bodily powers were perfectly under the command of his mind; This Revolt that we feel our Bodies and Senses are always in, cannot be supposed to be God's Original Workmanship"

— Burnet, Gilbert (1643-1715)