Date: 1707
"Why should we vex and grieve his love, / Who seals our souls to heavenly life?"
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1707
"Let others on the Senses Surface play, / And purchase fleeting Honours of a Day; / Your Empire's lasting, for the Mind's your Throne, / And ev'ry Hour you gain upon Renown."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: January 29, 1708
"[I]f thou wilt prolong / Dire Compotation, forthwith Reason quits / Her Empire to Confusion, and Misrule, / And vain Debates"
preview | full record— Philips, John (1676-1709)
Date: 1708
"'The Characters that Nature has impress'd, / 'Keep their primæval Stamp on ev'ry Breast"
preview | full record— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730); Aesop
Date: 1708
"'And he that wou'd, what's printed there, erase, / 'As well might hope to blanch a Negro's Face."
preview | full record— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730); Aesop
Date: 1708
"As if his hollow Skull had been / A Hive fill'd full of Bees within" who "To Wax and Honey turn'd his Brains; / For the long Speech he did transmit, / Was sometimes hard, and sometimes sweet"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1708
"Gold is the Magnet whose Attraction / Commands his Heart in ev'ry Action: / To that his Avaricious Soul / Points like the Needle to the Pole:"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1708
"You know, Lavinia, once I lov'd you well; / Nor has your Crimes yet chang'd my Heart to Steel."
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1708
"But round their Sockets did he rowl / The little Windows of his Soul"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1709
"How soft the first ideas prove, / Which wander through our minds!"
preview | full record— Finch [née], Anne, countess of Winchilsea (1666-1720)