Date: 1700, 1705
"Wit without Sense is like the Laughing-Evil, / And Sense unmix'd with Fancy is the D---l."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1700, 1705
"Wit, like the French, performs before it thinks, / And thoughtful Sense without Performance sinks."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1701
"He [Good King Bacchus] does the chaos of the head refine, / And atom-thoughts jump into words by wine"
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1701
"Their brain's so cool, their passion seldom burns; / For all's condens'd before the flame returns; The fermentation's of so weak a matter, / The humid damps the fume, and runs it all to water."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1702
"Love join'd their Souls, and Heav'n seal'd each Heart"
preview | full record— Sedley, Sir Charles (1639-1701)
Date: 1702
When Reason's "Pow'r is Despicable grown, / And Rebel Appetites Usurp my Throne, / The Soul no longer quiet Thoughts enjoys; / But all is Tumult, and Eternal Noise."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1702
"Nor is it easier to define / What Ligatures the Soul and Body join:"
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1702
"When Friends converse together Face to Face; / Then freely they Unbosom their Requests, / And treasure Secrets in each others Breasts, / As in firm Cabinets, close lock'd, where none / Can find the Key, but only each his own."
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: 1702
The "Memory of some doth rot"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: w. 1682, 1702
Friendship springs "From some interiour, hidden, innate Cause, / In Noble Breasts, uncircumscrib'd by Laws"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)