Date: 1660, 1676
"That is, of that which God hath declared to be good or evil respectively, the conscience is to be informed. God hath taken care that his laws shall be published to all his subjects, he hath written them where they must needs read them, not in Tables of stone or Phylacteries on the forehead, but ...
preview | full record— Taylor, Jeremy (bap. 1613, 1667)
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: 1702-1713, 1989
"The tyrant passions tread fair meritt down / & their proud thrones erect above the crown"
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1684, 1717
"Fancy sits Queen of all; / While the poor under-Faculties resort, / And to her fickle Majesty make Court"
preview | full record— Duke, Richard (1658-1711)
Date: 1684, 1717
The understanding is first to pay court to Queen Fancy, "plainly clad,
But usefully; no Ent'rance to be had"
preview | full record— Duke, Richard (1658-1711)
Date: 1684, 1717
The Will, "that Bully of the Mind," is next to pay court to Queen Fancy: "Follies wait on him in a Troop behind; / He meets Reception from the Antick Queen, / Who thinks her Majesty's most honour'd, when / Attended by those fine drest Gentlemen"
preview | full record— Duke, Richard (1658-1711)
Date: 1684, 1717
"Reason, the honest Counsellor, this knows, / And into Court with res'lute Virtue goes; / Lets Fancy see her loose irregular Sway, / Then how the flattering Follies sneak away!"
preview | full record— Duke, Richard (1658-1711)
Date: 1722
"He, who the revelation owns, yet brings / The sacred truths and high mysterious things / Of Christian faith, which heav'nly light reveals, / To reason's bar, to a wrong court appeals."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)