Date: 1730
"What dreadful havoc in the human breast / The passions make, when unconfin'd, and mad, / They burst, unguided by the mental eye, / The light of reason; which in various ways / Points them to good, or turns them back from ill."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1731
"I am unpractis'd in the Arts of Court; / And my free Thoughts range open as my Eye-balls."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1735
Reason may be "lull'd to Sleep by Idleness"
preview | full record— Hildebrand, Jacob (1692/3-1739)
Date: 1736
"Awake, great Common Sense, and sleep no more, / Look to thy self; for then, when I was slain, / Thy self was struck at."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1736
"Physicians cannot dose away [men's] Souls."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1739
A mind may be a mind so "famish'd for Drollery, that can taste the silly things this Play is season'd with"
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller James (1706-1744); Molière (1622-1673)
Date: 1739
"I have had some Scruples, Madam, and opened the Eyes of my Mind upon what I was a doing"
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller James (1706-1744); Molière (1622-1673)
Date: 1739
"Ye Angels speak! / For ye alone are like her; or present / Such Visions pictur'd to the nightly Eye / Of Fancy trans'd in Bliss."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1739
"How poor thy Pow'r, how empty is thy Happiness, / When such a Wretch, as I appear to be, / Can ride thy Temper, harrow up thy Form, / And stretch thy Soul upon the Rack of Passion."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1739
"Where lives the Man whose Reason slumbers not?"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)