Date: 1707, 1710
"So can the pow'rful Grape our Reason cheat, / And o'er our giddy Fancy reign."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)
Date: 1707
"There [in a softer mind] shall his sacred spirit dwell, / And deep engrave his law, / And every motion of our souls / To swift obedience draw."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1707
"Lost in Labyrinths of Love, / My Breast with hoarded Vengeance burns, / While Fear and Rage / With Hope engage, / And rule my wav'ring Soul by turns."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1707
"Let others on the Senses Surface play, / And purchase fleeting Honours of a Day; / Your Empire's lasting, for the Mind's your Throne, / And ev'ry Hour you gain upon Renown."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: January 29, 1708
"[I]f thou wilt prolong / Dire Compotation, forthwith Reason quits / Her Empire to Confusion, and Misrule, / And vain Debates"
preview | full record— Philips, John (1676-1709)
Date: March 16, 1696/7; 1708
"I fansy I pretty well guess what it is that some Men find mischievous in your 'Essay': 'Tis opening the Eyes of the Ignorant, and rectifying the Methods of Reasoning, which perhaps may undermine some received Errors, and so abridge the Empire of Darkness; wherein, though the Subject wander deplo...
preview | full record— Molyneux, William (1656-1698)
Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"Yes, Oswald, by the conscious Judge within, / So do I stand acquitted to my self, / That were my Ethelinda free from Danger, / On Peril of my Life, I would make known, / And to the World avow my Love and Faith."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"My faithful Seofrid / Has pierc'd into her very inmost Heart, / And found thee reigning there."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"Since Love is lost, / Come thou Revenge, succeed thou to ray Bosom, / And reign in all my Soul."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)