Date: 1709
"They fed the Body, but did feast the Mind."
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Date: w. c. 1709, 1711
"A little Learning is a dang'rous thing; / Drink deep, or taste not the Piërian spring: / There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, / And drinking largely sobers us again."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1714
In the afterlife, "each Soul must drink long Draughts / Of those forgetful Streams."
preview | full record— Evans, Abel (1679-1737)