Date: January 16, 1719
"Sophronia, now, mark her, if she takes a right turn now, I shall see her whole Heart naked, and Judge accordingly."
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1720
"Severity makes more Hypocrites than any Sort of Discipline; streight lacing the Body may make us good Shapes, but there's no streight lacing our Minds."
preview | full record— Shadwell, Charles (fl. 1692-1720)
Date: First performed February 17, 1720.
"O self-destroying Monster! that art blind, / Yet putt'st out Reason's Eyes, that still shou'd guide thee, / Then plungest down some Precipice unseen, / And art no more!--Hear me, all-gracious Heav'n!"
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: First performed February 17, 1720.
"It wounds my Heart / To think thou follow'st but to share my Ruin."
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1722
One's head and heart may be "on the rack" about something worrisome
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1730
"Enlarge the Purlieu of my narrow Mind: / In Colours, plain, expose to Reason's Eye, / What, yet, to Reason Nature does deny"
preview | full record— Smedley, Jonathan (1671-1729)
Date: 1704-5; 1731
"If a man's Body be under confinement, or he be impotent in his Limbs, he is then deprived of his bodily Liberty: And for the same Reason, if his Mind be blinded by sottish Errors, and his Reason over-ruled by violent Passions; is not This likewise plainly as great a Slavery and as ...
preview | full record— Clarke, Samuel (1675-1729)
Date: 1732
"With ev'ry Moment [Music] gives new Passions Birth"
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1742
A poet may "to the Eye of Judgement ever shine"
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1751
"Nothing conduces so much to improve the mind, and confirm it in virtue, as being continually employed in surveying the actions of others, entering into the concerns of the virtuous, approving of their conduct, condemning vice, and showing an abhorrence at it; for the mind acquires strength by ex...
preview | full record— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)