Date: 1675
"Those things are mean, are forc'd to court the Eyes, The Porters of the Soul, to give 'em entrance."
preview | full record— Fane, Sir Francis (d. 1691)
Date: 1708
"Passion more substantial Courts our Reason, solid, persuasive, elegant, sublime, where ev'ry Sense crowds to the luscious Banquet, and ev'ry nobler Faculty's imploy'd"
preview | full record— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)
Date: 1799
"A country is only a family on a larger scale; and transient, indeed, must that unanimity be, when inclination is law, and the various passions of the mind are suffer'd to run riot"
preview | full record— West, Matthew (d. 1814); Kotzebue (1761-1819)