Date: 1718, 1719
"When young, Unskilful of the World's false Arts, / Careless w'unlock to ev'ry Guest our Hearts"
preview | full record— Pack, Richardson (1682-1742)
Date: 1718, 1719
When young "Careless w'unlock to ev'ry Guest our Hearts"
preview | full record— Pack, Richardson (1682-1742)
Date: 1719
I struggled with the Power of my Imagination, reason'd myself out of it, as I believe People may always do in like Cases, if they will; and, in a Word, I conquer'd it
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1719
"I thought he was not a Monarch only, but a great Conqueror; for that he that has got a Victory over his own exorbitant Desires, and has the absolute Dominion over himself, whose Reason entirely governs his Will, is certainly greater than he that conquers a City"
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1719
"But it was all to no Purpose, I had an irresistible Desire to the Voyage; and I told her, I thought there was something so uncommon in the Impressions I had upon my Mind for the Voyage, that it would be a Kind of resisting Providence, if I should attempt to stay at Home."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: w. 1714, 1719, 1728
"While Hood-wink'd Ignorance her Reign resign'd, / Reason resum'd her Empire o'er the Mind"
preview | full record— Sewell, George (1690-1726)
Date: 1719
"I was not so much surpriz'd with the Lightning, as I was with a Thought which darted into my Mind as swift as the Lightning it self: O my Powder!"
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1720
"Ah! Wissin, had thy Art been so refin'd, / As with their Beauty to have drawn their Mind."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1720
Justice, the "Queen of Virtues" may poize the mind in "equal balance" so that "All different Graces soon will enter, / Like Lines concurrent to their Center"
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1720
"The Goths were not so barbarous a Race / As the grim Rusticks of this motly Place; / Of Reason void, and Thought, whom Int'rest rules, / Yet will be Knaves tho' Nature meant them Fools."
preview | full record— Diaper, William (1686-1717)