Date: 1723
"Can Kings the Empire of the Soul invade?"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1723
The "conscious Pow'r, the Judge within," may "With Frowns and awful Menaces begin / To fill [one] with Remorse and secret Fear"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1762-3
The five senses may "Allow [Reason] to retain the name / Of Royalty, and, as in sport, / To hold a mimic formal court, / Permitted (no uncommon thing) / To be a kind of puppet-king, / And suffer'd, by the way of toy, / To hold a globe, but not employ"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
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: 1762-3
"With these grave fops, whose system seems / To give up certainty for dreams / The eye of man is understood / As for no other purpose good / Than as a door, through which, of course, / Their passage crowding objects force; / A downright usher, to admit / New-comers to the court of Wit."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1762-3
"(Good Gravity! forbear thy spleen, / When I say wit, I wisdom mean) / Where, (such the practice of the court, / Which legal precedents support) / Not one idea is allow'd / To pass unquestion'd in the crowd, / But ere it can obtain the grace / Of holding in the brain a place, / Before the chief i...
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
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
"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)