Date: 1691
"Thoughts are our Plagues; the Beasts, that none do know, / Are Free from trouble and resentment too."
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1692
"At Distance thro' an artful Glass / To the Mind's Eye Things well appear."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1692
"Gold first their Blindfold Reason led astray"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1692
"Suspence that torture of the Mind, / Long had our Thoughts in doubts dark Cave confin'd"
preview | full record— Ames, Richard (bap. 1664?, d. 1692)
Date: 1693
"I grant this true: But, still, the deadly wound / Is in thy Soul: 'Tis there thou art not sound."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1693
"Knock on my Heart; for thou hast skill to find / If it sound solid, or be fill'd with Wind; / And, thro the veil of words, thou view'st the naked Mind."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1698
"His Fancy too was most Luxurious, / And fertil of an Off-spring spurious"
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 1699
"Reason 'tis true, should over sense preside, / Correct our Notions and our Judgments guide; / But false Opinions, rooted in the mind / Hood-wink the Soul, and keep the Reason blind."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1700
"Reason, 'tis true, shou'd over Sense Preside, / Correct our Notions, and our Judgment Guide; / But false Opinions, rooted in the Mind, / Hoodwink the Soul, and keep our Reason Blind."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1700, 1705
"Wit is a Flux, a Looseness of the Brain, / And Sense-abstract has too much Pride to reign."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)