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Date: 1709
"They fed the Body, but did feast the Mind."
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Date: 1709
"And tho' their Reason gave 'em dubious Light, / They trim'd the Lamp, and kept the Goal in sight"
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Date: 1709, 1714
"We may imagine what we please of a substantial solid Part of Beauty: but were the Subject to be well criticiz'd, we shou'd find, perhaps, that what we most admir'd, even in the Turn of outward Features, was but a mysterious Expression, and a kind of shadow of something inward in the Temper."
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)
Date: 1682, 1683, 1709
"Thus, led by what delusive Fame imparts, / We think thy [Modesty's] Throne's erected in their Hearts; / But w'are deceiv'd, as all our Fathers were, / For if thou Art at all, 'tis sure thou art not there."
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Date: 1682, 1683, 1709
A woman's heart is a "black Mansion" in which nothing resides "But Spite, Contention, Luxury, and Pride"
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Date: 1682, 1683, 1709
"At length from Love's vile Slave'ry I am free, / And have regain'd my Ancient Liberty: / I've shook the Chains off which my Bondage wrought, / Am free as Air, and unconfin'd as Thought."
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Date: 1682, 1683, 1709
"I've Banish'd Her for ever from my Breast, / Banish'd the Proud Invader of my Rest, / Banish'd the Tyrant Author of my Woes, / That robb'd my Soul of all it's Sweet Repose."
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Date: 1682, 1683, 1709
"The Whining Curse I've rooted from my Mind, / And with it, all Regard of Womankind."
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Date: 1682, 1683, 1709
"His Love's the very Bird-lime of his Brain, / And pulls some Part away with every Strain."
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Date: 1709
Long ago Pride and Fraud "Usurpt the Empire of [man's] Mind"
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
