Date: 1713
"Fair Lady, show your self a generous Conqueror; and since I am taken Captive by your Charms, and bound in the Golden Chains of your Beauty, throw me not into the Dungeon of Disdain, but rather confine me in the pleasing Mansions of your Bosom; where my Heart will glory in its Captivity, and desp...
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
Date: Jan 7 1712/13
"The Heart must be Tabula Rasa, white Paper to his Pen, soft Wax to his Seal: Let him write upon me what he pleaseth, and make what Impressions he pleaseth upon me."
preview | full record— Henry, Matthew (1662-1714)
Date: 1713
"The hero's presence deep impression makes; / The scenes his soul and body re-unite / Furnish a voice, produce him to the sight."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1713
"Falsly, the Mortal Part we blame / Of our deprest, and pond'rous Frame, / Which, till the First degrading Sin / Let Thee, its dull Attendant, in, / Still with the Other did comply, / Nor clogg'd the Active Soul, dispos'd to fly, / And range the Mansions of it's native Sky."
preview | full record— Finch [née], Anne, Countess of Winchilsea (1666-1720)
Date: 1714
"There is an infinity of past and present shapes and motions that enter into the efficient cause of my present writing"
preview | full record— Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716)
Date: 1714
Souls, "in general, are living mirrors or images of the universe of creatures."
preview | full record— Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716)
Date: 1714
Each "mind [is] like a little divinity in its own realm."
preview | full record— Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716)
Date: 1714
"But when a monad has organs that are adjusted in such a way that, through them, there is contrast and distinction among the impressions they receive, and consequently contrast and distinction in the perceptions that represent them [in the monads] (as, for example, when the rays of light are conc...
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Date: 1714
"Of equal Elements, / Without one jarring Atom was she form'd / And Gentleness, and Joy, make up her Being."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1714
"Never! By those chast Lights above, I swear, / My Soul shall never know Pollution more."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)