Date: 1733
The "fond Breast" may be populated by "jealous Demons"
preview | full record— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)
Date: 1733
"Nothing is more void of real improvement and instruction to the mind, and more fulsom, than heaps of quotations, and tedious disquisitions what opinions such and such men were of, in relation to matters properly determinable only by right reason and Scripture."
preview | full record— Browne, Peter (d. 1735)
Date: 1733
"But what they demand is, any ideas of them as different from all the ideas and conceptions of things sensible and human, as these are from things imperceptible and divine: and accordingly they tell you that when they look inward for such ideas to annex to the terms, their mind is an empty void; ...
preview | full record— Browne, Peter (d. 1735)
Date: 1733
"To explain how the mind or soul of man simply sees is one thing, and belongs to philosophy."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1733
"[S]prightly Wit, that all admire," may be "an unlicens'd lawless Fire"
preview | full record— Chandler, Mary (1687-1745)
Date: 1733
"And happy He, that with prevailing Art / Could gain a Conquest o'er her Virgin Heart"
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1733
One may "Conquer all Hearts without designing"
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1733
"Tho ane Enemie captive I viewed your desert / which darted a conquest on my yielding heart"
preview | full record— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Date: 1733
"I see the Soul in pensive fit, / And mopeing like sick Linnet sit, / With dewy eye and moulting wing, / Unperch'd, averse to fly or sing."
preview | full record— Green, Matthew (1696-1737) [pseud. Peter Drake, a Fisherman of Brentford]