Date: 1726
"Reason alone is sufficient to govern a Rational Creature; which was therefore a Character we had no Pretence to challenge"
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: 1726
"I know in descriptions of this nature the scenes are generally supposed to grow out of the author's imagination, and if they are not charming in all their parts, the reader never imputes it to the want of sun or soil, but to the barrenness of invention"
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1726
"Their proper country, says Philander, is the breast of a good man: for I think they are most of them the figures of Virtues."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1726
"To remember where he enters in the succession, they only consider in what part of the cabinet he lies; and by runinng over in their thoughts such a particular drawer, will give you an account of all the remarkable parts of his reign."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1727
"E'en Light itself, which every thing displays, / Shone undiscover'd, till [Newton's] brighter mind / Untwisted all the shining robe of day."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1727
"But each Man's secret Standard in his Mind, / That casting Weight, Pride adds to Emptiness"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1727
"Death's cold Hand arrests the Fears / That haunt the Coward's Mind"
preview | full record— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Date: 1727
"[T]umultuous Whims to Faction prone" may justle "Monarch Reason from her Throne"
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)
Date: 1727
A "little Loves" empire over swains' Hearts may be frail until Miranda crowns the Triumphs
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)
Date: 1727
"The Wretch is indigent and poor, / Who brooding sits o'er his ill-gotten Store; / Trembling with Guilt, and haunted by his Sin, / He feels the rigid Judge within"
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)