Date: 1712
"Did she not use the Senses Ministry, / Nor ever Taste, or Smell, or Hear, or See, / Cou'd she possest of Pow'r perceptive be?"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1712
"How is the Image to the Sense convey'd? / On the tun'd Organ how the Impulse made? / How, and by which more noble Part the Brain / Perceives th'Idea, can their Schools explain? / 'Tis clear, in that Superior Seat alone / The Judge of Objects has her secret Throne."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1712
"The Mind's Tribunal can Reports reject / Made by the Senses, and their Faults correct."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1712
The mind "Can each reluctant Appetite controul: / Can ev'ry Passion rule, and ev'ry Sense, / Change Nature's Course, and with her Laws dispense: / Our Breathing to prevent, she can arrest / Th'Extension, or Contraction of the Breast: / When pain'd with Hunger we can Food refuse, / And wholesome A...
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1712
Atheists should "No more at Reason's solemn Bar appear, / Hardy no more Scholastic Weapons bear."
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Date: 1713
"Through ev'ry Age some Tyrant Passion reigns"
preview | full record— Finch [née], Anne, countess of Winchilsea (1666-1720)
Date: 1713
"Through ev'ry Age some Tyrant Passion reigns: / Now Love prevails, and now Ambition gains / Reason's lost Throne, and sov'reign Rule maintains."
preview | full record— Finch [née], Anne, countess of Winchilsea (1666-1720)
Date: 1713
Cleopatra "justly cou'd a Nobler Empire boast / In Cæsar's Heart, than Ptolomy had lost"
preview | full record— Smith, John (fl. 1713)
Date: 1713
"Now that within Nocturnal Shell / Pale Visionary Glimm'rings dwell, / By Demonstration I'll evince, / And Testimony of the Sense."
preview | full record— Smith, John (fl. 1713)
Date: 1713
"Now, Marcus, now, thy Virtue's on the Proof: / Put forth thy utmost Strength, work ev'ry Nerve, / And call up all thy Father in thy Soul: / To quell the Tyrant Love, and guard thy Heart / On this weak Side, where most our Nature fails, / Would be a Conquest worthy Cato's Son."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)