Date: 1712, 1796
"Unsteady nature, varying like the wind, / Hurries to each extreme th'unstable mind; / At sea becalm'd, we wish some brisker gales / Would on us rise, and fill our limber sails: / We have our wish; and straight our skiff is toss'd / So high, we are in danger to be lost."
preview | full record— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)
Date: 1723
"Can Lictors able in Dispute dispell / The Clouds of Errour that involve the Mind, within?"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1733-4
"Better for Us, perhaps, it might appear, / Were there all harmony, all virtue here; / That never air or ocean felt the wind; /That never passion discompos'd the mind: / But All subsists by elemental strife; / And Passions are the Elements of life. "
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1733-4
"On Life's vast ocean diversely we sail, / Reason the card, but Passion is the gale."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1733-4
"A mightier Pow'r the strong direction sends, / And sev'ral Men impels to sev'ral ends. / Like varying winds, by other passions tost, / This drives them constant to a certain coast."
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Date: 1743
"Still spread a healing mist before the mind; / And lest we err by Wit's wild dancing light, / Secure us kindly in our native night."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1752
"Weak, impotent, yet wishing to be free, / You are by much a greater Slave, than me; / A Slave, to ev'ry Gust that shakes your Mind, / Your Eyes broad open, and your Senses blind."
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]
Date: 1753
"The clouded minds are purify'd at last."
preview | full record— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Date: 1761, 1765
Authors may "still, as by magic, Passion's inbred storm"
preview | full record— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)
Date: 1761, 1765
"Labour and Want (unhospitable twain) / Chill not the current in Life's salient vein; / Nor damp the spirits, else of sprightly cast, / Nor check the nobler passions of the breast; / Nor blunt the fine Sensation's tender edge, / Which man's chief pride philosophers allege. / Thus some fair ...
preview | full record— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)