Date: 1696
The soul may leave "the reins in the wild hand of nature, who like a Phaeton, drives the fiery chariot, and sets the world on flame"
preview | full record— Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)
Date: 1696
Fancy may over-rule reason
preview | full record— Granville, George, Baron Lansdowne (1666-1735)
Date: 1696
"Poor thredbare Vertue ne'er admir'd in Court. / But seeks its Refuge in an honest Mind, / There it securely dwells, / Like Anchorets in Cells / Where no Ambition nor wild Lust resorts."
preview | full record— Tutchin, John (1661-1707)
Date: 1696
"The Common Lawyers devour the Body and Estate, the Spiritual Court the Soul."
preview | full record— Anonymous; George Powell (1658-1714), Publisher
Date: 1696
"What's this I feel thus rising in my Breast? Have I room there for any thing but Love? From whence then this new Guest? Is't Jealousie? "
preview | full record— Scott, Thomas (fl. 1696-1697)
Date: 1696
"Pray is not the Face the Mirror of the Mind?"
preview | full record— Motteux, Peter Anthony (1663-1718)
Date: 1696
"Pitty would not now at least /Have been a stranger to her Breast"
preview | full record— Oldmixon, John (1672/3-1742)
Date: 1696
"No, for I have heard some say, Men are ne're less alone, then when alone. reason I suppose is this, because they have Crowds of Thoughts, that still per the Mind; which wou'd be like the Soul retired and free, thereby to enjoy sweet Repose, which nought but that can Grant."
preview | full record— Harris, Joseph (fl. 1684-1703)
Date: 1696
"Imagine two clocks or watches which agree perfectly ... Put now the soul and the body in place of these two clocks; their accordance may be brought about by one of these three ways."
preview | full record— Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716)
Date: 1696
"But hold Leander, let no Seas nor Wind / Disturb the quiet Freehold of thy Mind."
preview | full record— Radcliffe, Alexander (b. c. 1653, d. in or before 1696)