Date: 1715-1720
"Homer draws him (as we have seen) soft of Speech, the natural Quality of an amorous Temper; vainly gay in War as well as Love; with a Spirit that can be surprized and recollected, that can receive Impressions of Shame or Apprehension on the one side, or of Generosity and Courage on the ot...
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
"Let great Achilles, to the Gods resign'd, / To Reason yield the Empire o'er his Mind."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1721, 1722
"With us there is an uniformity of character, as it is all forced: we do not see people as they are, but as they are obliged to appear: in this state of slavery, both of body and mind, it is their fears only that speak, which have but one language, and that not of nature, which expresses herself ...
preview | full record— Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Date: 1721, 1722
"This prince is, besides, a great magician; he exercises his empire even over the minds of his subjects, and makes them think as he pleases."
preview | full record— Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Date: 1721, 1722
"The soul united to a body is continually under its tyrannical power."
preview | full record— Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Date: 1725-6
"A willing Goddess, and immortal life, / Might banish from thy mind an absent wife."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.
Date: 1725-6
"Homer therefore evidently understood that the soul ought to govern and direct the passions, and that it is of a nature more divine than harmony."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.
Date: 1725
"Let reason rule the sallies of the mind"
preview | full record— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Date: 1725
In composition "Let sov'reign reason dictate from her throne"
preview | full record— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Date: 1727
"The Wretch is indigent and poor, / Who brooding sits o'er his ill-gotten Store; / Trembling with Guilt, and haunted by his Sin, / He feels the rigid Judge within"
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)