Date: 1700
"O Sacharissa, what could steel thy breast, / To rob the charming Waller of his rest?"
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)
Date: 1700
"The Lamp of Life burns dimly in my Breast, / Soon from its beating toil my weary Heart will rest."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1700
"He oft reflected on the sacred Guest, / Which had her fixt abode within his Breast, / And in his Works her God-like Form exprest."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1700
"No shackling Rhyme chain'd the free Poets mind; / Majestick was his Style, and unconfin'd."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)
Date: 1700
"When we find out an Idea, by whose Intervention we discover the Connexion of two others, this is a Revelation from God to us, by the Voice of Reason"
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1700
"Love will resume his Empire in our Breasts, and every Heart, or soon or late, receive and readmit him as its lawful Tyrant"
preview | full record— Congreve, William (1670-1729)
Date: 1700
"In what figure shall I give his Heart the first Impression? There is a great deal in the first impression."
preview | full record— Congreve, William (1670-1729)
Date: 1700
"To think of a Whirlwind, tho' 'twere in a Whirlwind, were a Case of more steady Contemplation; a very tranquility of Mind and Mansion."
preview | full record— Congreve, William (1670-1729)
Date: 1700
"A Fellow that lives in a Windmill, has not a more whimsical Dwelling than the Heart of a Man that is lodg'd in a Woman."
preview | full record— Congreve, William (1670-1729)
Date: 1700
"When I did not see him I cou'd have brib'd a Villain to his Assassination; but his appearance rakes the Embers which have so long layn smother'd in my Breast."
preview | full record— Congreve, William (1670-1729)