Date: 1726
"Their proper country, says Philander, is the breast of a good man: for I think they are most of them the figures of Virtues."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1730
"It dethrones the reason, extinguishes all noble and heroick sentiments, and subjects the mind to the slavery of every present passion."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1735, 1745
The soul "Which reasons justly, Its own Thoughts o'er-rules"
preview | full record— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)
Date: 1732, 1736
Reason may over-rule fancy
preview | full record— Granville, George, Baron Lansdowne (1666-1735)