Date: 1720
"Nay more, when thou art dead, I won't leave thy Soul in Quiet--for I will go streight to thy House, break open they Chests, and scatter thy Gold and Silver, which is thy Soul"
preview | full record— Molloy, Charles (d. 1767)
Date: 1720
"You'll weep, I know you will; no Iron Chains / Confine thy Heart, thy Breast no Oak retains."
preview | full record— Dart, John (d. 1730); Tibullus (c. 54-19 B.C.)
Date: 1720
"How savage must he be to learn such Ill! / And sure his very Soul it self was Steel."
preview | full record— Dart, John (d. 1730); Tibullus (c. 54-19 B.C.)
Date: 1720
"O'er steely Breasts, oft soothing Prayers prevail"
preview | full record— Dart, John (d. 1730); Tibullus (c. 54-19 B.C.)
Date: 1720
"Parthenia's breast is steel'd with real scorn"
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
Date: 1720
"Hypocrisie contracts, there is no Room within, / The Heart is fetter'd and enthral'd by Sin."
preview | full record— Pennecuik, Alexander (d. 1730)
Date: 1720
"But Friendship is the Mirror of the Mind, which lays open to us all our Faults"
preview | full record— Shadwell, Charles (d. 1726)
Date: 1720
"Hence Superstition, that tormenting guest, / That haunts with fancy'd fears the coward breas;"
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
Date: 1720
"But Adam's Soul being put in his Body, his Brain was a Tabula rasa, as White Paper, had no Impressions in it, but such as either God put in it, or such as came to him by his Senses."
preview | full record— Burnet, Gilbert (1643-1715)
Date: 1720
"For as in the Body Politick, the Prince, (whom Seneca calls the Soul of the Commonwealth.) receiveth no Passages of State, or false Ones, where there is Negligence, or Disability in those subjectate Inquirers, (whom Xenophon terms the Eyes and Ears of Kings.) In like Manner the Soul of Man being...
preview | full record— Hales, John (1584-1656)