Date: 1726
"But as we are always ready to flatter our selves, so did our Lover, and took the Lady's Courtesie for Kindness, and her smiling Looks for interiour Affection."
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: w. 1707, published 1728-9
Dulness is "the safe Opiate of the Mind."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)