Date: Monday, March 3, 1712
"A Vice of a more lively Nature were a more desirable Tyrant than this Rust of the Mind, which gives a Tincture of its Nature to every Action of ones Life."
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: Monday, March 3, 1712
"Death brings all Persons back to an Equality; and this Image of it, this Slumber of the Mind, leaves no Difference between the greatest Genius and the meanest Understanding: A Faculty of doing things remarkably praise-worthy thus concealed, is of no more use to the Owner, than a Heap of Gold to ...
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1713
"These purer thoughts, from gross alloys refined, / With heavenly raptures elevate the mind."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1713
"Why will you fight against so sweet a Passion, / And steel your Heart to such a World of Charms?"
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1713
"Are Ladies Hearts more hard than Stone, / Are Wolves and Bears less fierce?"
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
Date: 1714
"The most, such Iron Hearts we are, and such / The base Barbarity of Humane Kind, / Hooting and Railing, and with Villainous Hands / Gathering the Filth from out the Common Ways, / To hurl upon her Head."
preview | full record— Gildon, Charles (1665-1724)
Date: 1714, 1723
"Tormenting Doubts my troubled Soul perplex, / But my steel'd Breast no certain Fears can vex."
preview | full record— Hughes, Jabez (1685-1731)
Date: 1714
"The most, such Iron Hearts we are, and such / The base Barbarity of Human Kind, / With Insolence and lewd Reproach pursu'd her, / Hooting and Railing, and with Villainous Hands / Gathering the Filth from out the common Ways, / To hurl upon her Head."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1715-1720
"Proud as he is, that Iron-heart retains / Its stubborn Purpose, and his Friends disdains"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
"Is then the dire Achilles all your Care? / That Iron Heart, inflexibly severe."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)