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Date: 1699
"Our Understanding they [the passions] with darkness fill, / Cause strange Conceptions, and pervert the Will."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1699
"Reason's a Taper, which but faintly burns: / A Languid Flame that glows and dies by turns: / We see't a while, and but a little way / We travel by its Light, as Men by Day; / But quickly dying, it forsakes us soon; / Like Morning Stars that never stay till Noon."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1770
"Let him not intrude upon the company of men of science; but repose with his brethren Aquinas and Suarez, in the corner of some Gothic cloister, dark as his understanding, and cold as his heart."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
