Date: 1700, 1717
"This Helenus to great AEneas told, / Which I retain, e'er since in other Mould: / My Soul was cloath'd; and now rejoice to view / My Country Walls rebuilt, and Troy reviv'd anew, / Rais'd by the fall: Decreed by Loss to Gain; / Enslav'd but to be free, and conquer'd but to reign."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1700
"The Passions still predominant will rule, / Ungovern'd, rude, not bred in Reason's School."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1700, 1705
"Let either side abate of their Demands, / And both submit to Reason's high Commands, / For which way ere the Conquest shall encline, / The Loss Britannia will at last be thine."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1700, 1705
"Wit is a Flux, a Looseness of the Brain, / And Sense-abstract has too much Pride to reign."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1700, 1705
"Wit is a King without a Parliament, / And Sense a Democratick Government."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1700, 1705
"Wit, like the French, wher'e'er it reigns destroys, / And Sense advanc'd is apt to Tyrannize."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1700, 1705
"Wit is a Standing-Army Government, / And Sense a sullen stubborn P---t."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1701
"Nor can this right be less when national; / Reason which governs one, should govern all."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1702
Reason has a law that may be transgressed by vile wretches
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1702
"They're not Love's Subjects, but the Slaves of Lust, / Nor is their Punishment so great, as just."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)