Date: 1767
"Man in this world, Sir, may be compared to a hackney-coach upon a stand; continually subject to be drawn by his unruly appetites, on one foolish jaunt or another; but you will say, if his appetites are horses, which as it were drag him along, reason is the coachman to rule those horses--But, Sir...
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1821
My "spirit's bark is driven, / Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng / Whose sails were never to the tempest given."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)