Date: 1719
"[N]ay, they were not subjected to so many Distempers and Uneasinesses either of Body or Mind, as those were, who by vicious Living, Luxury and Extravagancies on one Hand, or by hard Labour, want of Necessaries, and mean or insufficient Diet on the other Hand, bring Distempers upon themselves by ...
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: January 16, 1719
"No, Madam, I say, not that I mean to use my Power, I tell you only what it is, my Heart has broke your Chain, I claim no Right over you."
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1719
"In you he liv'd, with yours his Soul was mixt, / As meeting Streams that flow promiscuous on."
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1719
"Pensive and pale desponding / Albion sate, / And hourly waited her impending Fate; / 'Till George arose, in every Grace design'd, / To stop the Ruin, and defend Mankind, / To break the Fetters which our selves had wrought, / And free from Bondage the aspiring Thought."
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
Date: 1719
"My soul is like a wilderness, / Where beasts of midnight howl; / There the sad raven finds her place, / And there the screaming owl."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1719, 1720
"For, says he, PUNS are like so many Torch-Lights in the Head, that give the Soul a very distinct View of those Images, which she before seemed to groap after as if she had been imprisoned in a Dungeon."
preview | full record— Sheridan, Thomas (1687-1738)
Date: 1719
"Hard was his Heart, inclos'd in Folds of Brass, / Who in a feeble Bark first boldly try'd / The Watry Path and Region of the Seas, /And adverse Winds and swelling Waves defy'd"
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1718, 1719
"Fancy not Reason rules our wayward Mind"
preview | full record— Pack, Richardson (1682-1742)
Date: 1718, 1719
"When young, Unskilful of the World's false Arts, / Careless w'unlock to ev'ry Guest our Hearts"
preview | full record— Pack, Richardson (1682-1742)
Date: 1718, 1719
When young "Careless w'unlock to ev'ry Guest our Hearts"
preview | full record— Pack, Richardson (1682-1742)