Date: 1673, 1684
"Th' illiterate Writer, Emperique like, applies / To minds diseas'd, unsafe, chance Remedies."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1676
"Can that blind faculty the Will be free, / When it depends upon the Understanding??
preview | full record— Shadwell, Thomas (1642-1692)
Date: 1678
"Into his studious Closet to stuff his Lunatick head, since he can get nothing for his belly."
preview | full record— Porter, Thomas (1636-1680)
Date: 1696
"Love's a Fever of the Mind, which nothing but our own wishes can asswage, and I don't Question but we shall find Marriage a very cooling Cordial."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1697
"My Reason is in Health, and construes nothing ill from a distemper'd Friend."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1701
"That Opinion, Tremilia, denotes a diseas'd Mind, which is as naturally averse to every thing that's pleasant, and agreeable, as a Diseas'd Body is to wholsom Food."
preview | full record— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)
Date: 1701
"No, Sir, Love is the greatest Enemy to Conversation, for even with the Young 'tis reckon'd a Disease of the Mind, but when the Old are seiz'd, 'tis a Sign of some very great Indisposition, and the Sentiments of craz'd People are seldom very extraordinary."
preview | full record— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)
Date: 1701
"'Tis you handsom Mercers that wound all the Ladies Hearts."
preview | full record— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)
Date: 1702
"The faculties of the Soul, like the parts of the Body, receive nourishment from use, and derive skill as well as they do force and vigour from exercise"
preview | full record— Dennis, John (1658-1734)
Date: 1702
"If my wounded Mind / Could know a Thought of Peace, it would be now."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)