Date: 1713
"My Memory is pretty well stocked with Terms of Art, and I can talk unintelligibly."
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
Date: 1713
"Are Ladies Hearts more hard than Stone, / Are Wolves and Bears less fierce?"
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
Date: 1713
"Have not I a bonny Complexion, my Heart of Oak? dost thou not trace the Remains of Beauty through every Feature?"
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
Date: 1713
"If Reason governs Man's superior Mind, / A ready Cunning prompts the Female Kind."
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
Date: Jan 7 1712/13
"The Heart must be Tabula Rasa, white Paper to his Pen, soft Wax to his Seal: Let him write upon me what he pleaseth, and make what Impressions he pleaseth upon me."
preview | full record— Henry, Matthew (1662-1714)
Date: 1713
"The hero's presence deep impression makes; / The scenes his soul and body re-unite / Furnish a voice, produce him to the sight."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: July 23, 1703; 1714
"Time, I daily find, blots out apace the little Stock of my Mind, and has disabled me from furnishing all that I would willingly contribute to the Memory of that Learned Man.."
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1714
"[F]oul Reproches ignominious Stain, / Sate deep engraven in his fearfull Heart,"
preview | full record— Croxall, Samuel (1688/9-1752); Nestor Ironside
Date: 1714
"What iron Breast so hard that can endure / To work such Spight on Vertuous Innocence?"
preview | full record— Croxall, Samuel (1688/9-1752); Nestor Ironside
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)