Date: 1709, 1714
"The Specter still will haunt us, in some Shape or other: and when driven from our cool Thoughts, and frighted from the Closet, will meet us even at Court, and fill our Heads with Dreams of Grandure, Titles, Honours, and a false Magnificence and Beauty; to which we are ready to sacrifice our high...
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)
Date: Thursday, July 14, to Saturday, July 16, 1709
"Her countenance is the lively picture of her mind, which is the seat of honour, truth, compassion, knowledge, and innocence."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard, and Joseph Addison
Date: From Tuesd. Aug. 9. to Thursday Aug. 11. 1709
"We must take our Minds a Note or two lower, or we shall be tortur'd by Jealousy or Anger."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: From Thursd. Aug. 11. to Saturd. Aug. 13. 1709
"There is therefore an assiduous Care and Cultivation to be bestowed upon our Passions and Affections; for they, as they are the Excrescencies of our Souls, like our Hair and Beards, look horrid or becoming, as we cut or let 'em grow."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: From Thursd. Aug. 25. to Saturd. Aug. 27. 1709
"Forgive me, Madam, it is not that my Heart is weary of its Chain, but—This incoherent Stuff was answer'd by a tender Sigh, Why do you put your Wit to a week Woman?"
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard, and Joseph Addison
Date: From Thursd. Dec. 15. to Saturd. Dec. 17. 1709
"I am sure I feel it in so extraordinary a Manner, that I cannot in a Day or Two get out of my Imagination any very beautiful or disagreeable Impression which I receive on such Occasions."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: From Thursd. Dec. 15. to Saturd. Dec. 17. 1709
"For this Reason I frequently look in at the Playhouse, in order to enlarge my Thoughts, and warm my Mind with some new Idea's, that may be serviceable to me in my Lucubrations."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1710, 1714
"You would wonder to hear how close he pushes matters and how thoroughly he carries on the business of self-dissection. By virtue of this soliloquy, he becomes two distinct persons. He is pupil and preceptor. He teaches and he learns."
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)
Date: 1710, 1714
"For company is an extreme provocative to fancy and, like a hotbed in gardening, is apt to make our imaginations sprout too fast."
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)
Date: 1780?
"Lust is the unbridled Horse of the Soul that has thrown its Rider."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)