Date: May 10, 1704
"Others of these professors, though agreeing in the main system, were yet more refined upon certain branches of it; and held that man was an animal compounded of two dresses, the natural and the celestial suit, which were the body and soul; that the soul was the outward, and the body the inward c...
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: May 10, 1704
"To instance no more, is not religion a cloak, honesty a pair of shoes worn out in the dirt, self-love a surtout, vanity a shirt, and conscience a pair of breeches, which, though a cover for lewdness as well as nastiness, is easily slipped down for the service of both."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: Saturday, May 26, 1711
"When a Gentleman speaks Coarsly, he has dressed himself Clean to no purpose: The Cloathing of our Minds certainly ought to be regarded before that of our Bodies."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: Wednesday, April 30, 1712
"Lace and Drapery is as much a Man, as Wit and Turn is Passion."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: Friday, May 30, 1712
"To turn the Discourse, which from being witty grew to be malicious, the Matron of the Family took occasion, from the Subject, to wish that there were to be found amongst Men such faithful Monitors to dress the Mind by, as we consult to adorn the Body."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1720
"Severity makes more Hypocrites than any Sort of Discipline; streight lacing the Body may make us good Shapes, but there's no streight lacing our Minds."
preview | full record— Shadwell, Charles (fl. 1692-1720)
Date: 1722
"I met her this morning in a new manteau and petticoat, not a bit worse for her lady's wearing, and she has always new thoughts and new airs with new clothes."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1724
"In short, every thing we do, you construe to your own advantage: if we look easy and pleas'd in your Company, we are certainly in Love; if grave and reserv'd, 'tis to hide our Love; thus you all imagine we are fond of gaining a Conquest over a Heart, which when we have got it, is perhaps so very...
preview | full record— Davys, Mary (1674-1732)
Date: 1739
"O I will / Of private Passions all my Soul divest, / And take my dearer Country to my Breast."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1744
"As the body is said to clothe the soul, so the nerves may be said to constitute her inner garment."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)