Date: 1703, 1718
"Passions Subjection to their Guide disown, / Insult their Soveraign, and subvert his Throne"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1703, 1718
Fancy may "fickle reign in Reason's Seat, / And Thy wild Empire, Anarchy, uphold"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1703, 1718
Tyrant desires subject man to "various Servitude, and endless Change of Pain"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1705
"T' enjoy the World's Conveniencies, / Be fam'd in War, yet live in Ease, / Without great Vices, is a vain / Eutopia seated in the Brain."
preview | full record— Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733)
Date: 1667
"Conscience is Christs Vicar in mans heart, / It keeps Court there, and acts the Judges part"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1705
"Polish'd in Courts, and harden'd in the Field, / Renown'd for Conquest, and in Council skill'd, / Their Courage dwells not in a troubl'd Flood / Of mounting Spirits, and fermenting Blood; / Lodg'd in the Soul, with Virtue over-rul'd, / Inflam'd by Reason, and by Reason cool'd, / In Hours of Peac...
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1702
"Shall then the seeming Beauty of this thing / So dis-ingage from Duty to the King / Of Glory, who alone should rule in Man? / The Heart should be his Throne."
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: 1702
"Reason, that honours Mankind more than Beast, / Gives forth its Laws and Dictates in each Breast"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: 1702
"Modesty, that in their Bosom reigns, / Detests and loaths whatever spots or stains"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: 1702
The "true Noble Mind / Conquers a Wrong by Patience, is resign'd / For Vertue's sake to bear, that Reason may / Be Re-enthron'd, and Passion pass away"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)