Date: 1698
"Our own Thoughts, and those of others, do, in all our Conversations, use to come to us, clad in Words: Whence it happens, that 'tis very hard, liquidly and clearly to strip the Sense from those Words; and to consider It, and nothing but It."
preview | full record— Sergeant, John (1622-1707)
Date: w. c. 1709, 1711
"Expression is the dress of thought, and still / Appears more decent, as more suitable."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)