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Date: 1736
"Awake, great Common Sense, and sleep no more, / Look to thy self; for then, when I was slain, / Thy self was struck at."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1736
"Physicians cannot dose away [men's] Souls."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1737
"[B]ut shall Quirps and Sentences, and those Paper-Bullets of the Brain frighten a Man from his Humour?"
preview | full record— Miller, James (1706-1744); Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Date: January 29, 1737
"Nay, the Light of Reason, which we so much boast of, what is it but a Dark-Lanthorn, which just serves to keep us from running our Nose against a Post, perhaps; but is no more able to lead us out of the dark Mists of Error and Ignorance, in which we are lost, than an Ignis fatuus would be to co...
preview | full record— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)
Date: 1739
"Faint is the lesson reason's rules impart: / [Drama] pours it strong and instant through the heart"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1739
"And as the Author very well says, whose Name I've forgot, Man is in this World like a Bird upon a Bough, the Bough is fix'd to the Tree, he who is fix'd to the Tree follows good Precepts, good Precepts are better than fine Words, fine Words are found at Court, at Court are Courtiers, Courtiers f...
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller James (1706-1744); Molière (1622-1673)
Date: 1739
A mind may be a mind so "famish'd for Drollery, that can taste the silly things this Play is season'd with"
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller James (1706-1744); Molière (1622-1673)
Date: 1739
"May all English Lads, like you, Boys, / Prove on Shore true Hearts of Gold; / To their King and Country true"
preview | full record— Phillips, Edward (b. 1708/9)
Date: 1739
" If thy Heart is not insensible as Brass, or Steel, once more, at least, let my rash Folly find a Pardon"
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller James (1706-1744); Molière (1622-1673)
Date: 1739
"If thy Heart is not insensible as Brass, or Steel, once more, at least, let my rash Folly find a Pardon"
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller James (1706-1744); Molière (1622-1673)
