Date: 1697
Locke's readers are "led into a Wood of Idea's ... and there they are lost; pleasantly indeed, amongst Lights and Shades, and many pretty Landskips"
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)
Date: 1697
"Reluctant Sense declines the untrodden Path, / Tho aided both by Reason and by Faith."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1699, 1714
"'Tis thus, at last, that A MIND becomes a Wilderness; where all is laid waste, every thing fair and goodly remov'd, and nothing extant beside what is savage and deform'd."
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)