Date: 1684
"Soft-panting Heart: scarce knows what Fonder Guest / Might steal that way into her Virgin-Brest."
preview | full record— Harington, John (1627-1700)
Date: 1715
"The Poet is in the right to say, that the Mind is a Part of Man: for it is, indeed, the informing, but not an assisting Part, as a Mariner in a Ship, and a Coachman in his Box, as the Academicks believ'd."
preview | full record— Lucretius Carus, Titus (94 B.C.- ca. 49 B.C.); Creech, Thomas (1659-1700)
Date: 1734
"My free-born thoughts I'll not confine, / Though all Parnassus could be mine."
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Date: 1744
"Why, to be good in vain, is man betray'd? / Betray'd by traitors lodged in his own breast, / By sweet complacencies from Virtue felt?"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"Or if blind Instinct (which assumes the name / Of sacred Conscience) plays the fool in man, / Why Reason made accomplice in the cheat?"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"Still unsubdued thy stubborn heart?--for there / The traitor lurks, who doubts the truth I sing."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"Reason is guiltless! Will alone rebels."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"What, in that stubborn heart if I should find / New, unexpected witnesses against thee? / Ambition, Pleasure, and the Love of Gain!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"I'll introduce Lorenzo to himself: / Pleasure and Pride (bad masters) share our hearts."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"As Love of Pleasure is ordain'd to guard / And feed our bodies, and extend our race; / The Love of Praise is planted to protect / And propagate the glories of the mind."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)