Date: 1667
"Good Conscience, as Davids Instrument, / Drives away th'evil Spirit of discontent."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1748, 1754
"He will learn to transfer the Numbers of Poetry to the Harmony of the Mind, and of well-governed Passions."
preview | full record— Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)
Date: 1748, 1754
"For, being now destitute of that Counter-poise which held them at a due pitch, they grow turbulent, peevish, and revengeful, the Cause of constant Restlessness and Torment, sometimes flying out into a wild delirious Joy, at other times settling into a deep splenetic Grief. The Concert between Re...
preview | full record— Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)