Date: 1672
"[A]ll these threatning storms which, like impregnant Clouds, do hover o'er our heads, (when they once are grasp'd but by the eye of reason) melt into fruitful showers of blessings on the people."
preview | full record— Villiers, George, Second Duke of Buckingham (1628-1687)
Date: 1673, 1684
"Th' illiterate Writer, Emperique like, applies / To minds diseas'd, unsafe, chance Remedies."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1676
"Can that blind faculty the Will be free, / When it depends upon the Understanding??
preview | full record— Shadwell, Thomas (1642-1692)
Date: 1678
"Into his studious Closet to stuff his Lunatick head, since he can get nothing for his belly."
preview | full record— Porter, Thomas (1636-1680)
Date: 1696
"Love's a Fever of the Mind, which nothing but our own wishes can asswage, and I don't Question but we shall find Marriage a very cooling Cordial."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1696
"O! that we cou'd incorporate, be one, / One Body, as we have been long one Mind: / That blended so, we might together mix, / And losing thus our Beings to the World, / Be only found to one anothers Joys."
preview | full record— Southerne, Thomas (1659-1746)
Date: 1697
"My Reason is in Health, and construes nothing ill from a distemper'd Friend."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1701
"That Opinion, Tremilia, denotes a diseas'd Mind, which is as naturally averse to every thing that's pleasant, and agreeable, as a Diseas'd Body is to wholsom Food."
preview | full record— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)
Date: 1701
"No, Sir, Love is the greatest Enemy to Conversation, for even with the Young 'tis reckon'd a Disease of the Mind, but when the Old are seiz'd, 'tis a Sign of some very great Indisposition, and the Sentiments of craz'd People are seldom very extraordinary."
preview | full record— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)
Date: 1701
"'Tis you handsom Mercers that wound all the Ladies Hearts."
preview | full record— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)