Date: 1707, 1710
"Reason will judge, when both their Claims produce."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)
Date: 1707, 1710
"So can the pow'rful Grape our Reason cheat, / And o'er our giddy Fancy reign."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)
Date: 1707
"Lost in Labyrinths of Love, / My Breast with hoarded Vengeance burns, / While Fear and Rage / With Hope engage, / And rule my wav'ring Soul by turns."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"Yes, Oswald, by the conscious Judge within, / So do I stand acquitted to my self, / That were my Ethelinda free from Danger, / On Peril of my Life, I would make known, / And to the World avow my Love and Faith."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"My faithful Seofrid / Has pierc'd into her very inmost Heart, / And found thee reigning there."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"Since Love is lost, / Come thou Revenge, succeed thou to ray Bosom, / And reign in all my Soul."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1709, 1714
"And I am persuaded, that had Reason herself been to judg of her own Interest, she wou'd have thought she receiv'd more Advantage in the main from that easy and familiar way, than from the usual stiff Adherence to a particular Opinion."
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)
Date: 1709, 1714
"But according to refin'd Sense, the only well-advis'd Persons, as to this World, are errant Knaves; and they alone are thought to serve themselves, who serve their Passions, and indulge their loosest Appetites and Desires."
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)
Date: From Thursd. Sept. 8. to Saturd. Sept. 10. 1709
"For ordinary Minds are wholly governed by their Eyes and Ears, and there is no Way to come at their Hearts but by Power over their Imaginations."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)