Date: 1688
"This rais'd him to a Storm; and in his Madness, they had much ado to save him from laying violent Hands on himself"
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1688
"Yet this serv'd not altogether to make him cease his different Passions, which sometimes rag'd within him, and sometimes softned into Showers"
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1691
"In the Chimney lies one whistling, another gaping, another swearing and cursing, and all of them in such a Tempest of Imagination, that had not the Master of the House interpos'd his Authority, and seasonably assum'd the Office of Master of the supposed Pinnace, commanding all hands down in the ...
preview | full record— Dunton, John (1659–1732)
Date: 1692
"The cause of this (said I) is that Cloud of Ignorance that blinds the Eye of our Mind, Reason, that it can't distinguish better."
preview | full record— Gildon, Charles (1665-1724)
Date: 1712, 1715, 1719
We "suffer our selves to be blown and toss'd by our Passions, without casting Anchor on the Coast of sound Judgment, or steering to the Harbour of right Reason"
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)