Date: w. 1610-11, 1623
"A solemn air, and the best comforter / To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains, / Now useless, boiled within thy skull."
preview | full record— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Date: w. 1610-11, 1623
"Their understanding / Begins to swell, and the approaching tide / Will shortly fill the reasonable shores / That now lie foul and muddy."
preview | full record— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Date: 1704
"This is what I quote them for, and this is all my Argument demands; the deepest Search into the Region of Cause and Consequence, has found out just enough to leave the wisest Philosopher in the dark, to bewilder his Head, and drown his Understanding."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)