Date: 1696
"He that strives not to Stem his Angers Tide, / Does a Mad Horse without a Bridle ride."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1708
"Passions are too hurrying to last; Vapours that start from a Mercurial Brain, whose wild Chimera's flush the lighter Faculties, which tir'd i'th' vain pursuit of fancy'd Pleasures."
preview | full record— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)