Date: 1696
"For if we look through Reason's never erring Perspective, we then Survey their Souls, and view the Rubbish we were Chaffring for: And such I find, Hillaria's mind is made of."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1696
"How near are men to Brutes, when their unruly Passions break the Bounds of Reason?"
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Date: 1696
"Look you, Sir, my Reason weighs this Injury, which is so light, it will not raise my Anger in the other Scale."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1696
"Can Fancy be a surer Guide to Happiness than Reason?"
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Date: 1697
"The Soul that awful Throne of Thought, That sacred Seat of Contemplation."
preview | full record— Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)
Date: 1697
"Her Mony may raise many a false pretended Passion, and young Women seldom want a little hardned Vanity to stamp it into Currant Love."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1697
"[T[hou shalt see me mould his heart in the palm of my Hand like soft Wax, till I make it bear what impression I please"
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1701
"Stand by ye Fools--That noble Theam's my share,/ Farce is a Strain too low to court the Fair; / When to that pitch your Thoughts attempt to fly, / Like unskill'd Icarus you soar too high."
preview | full record— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)
Date: 1702
"For a Comick Poet is obliged to put off himself, and transform himself into his several Characters; to enter into the Foibles of his several persons, and all the Recesses and secret turns of their minds, and to make their Passions, their Interests, and their Concern his own."
preview | full record— Dennis, John (1658-1734)
Date: 1702
"Why hangs my Heart thus heavy / Like Death within my Bosom?"
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)