1700

Explore 7 quotes from the year 1700

The end must justify the means.

Matthew Prior

Hans Carvel

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Topic

Moral theory Justifications and rationales

Author

Matthew Prior

Source

Hans Carvel

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Precepts and axioms

Language

English

Time

1700 1700s 17th century

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Citation

Prior, Matthew. Hans Carvel. c. 1700.

Happy the man whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air,
In his own ground.

Alexander Pope

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Topic

Home

Author

Alexander Pope

Source

Ode on Solitude

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1700 1700s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Pope, Alexander. "Ode on Solitude." 1700?

Current Citation

Pope, Alexander. "Ode on Solitude." Essay on Man & Other Poems. Dover, 1994.

We live and learn, but not the wiser grow.

John Pomfret

Reason

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Topic

Life lessons School of hard knocks Acquiring wisdom

Author

John Pomfret

Source

Reason

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1700 1700s 18th century

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Citation

Pomfret, John. Reason. London: J. Nutt, c. 1700.

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie.

Alexander Pope

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Topic

Anonymity Solitude Obscurity

Author

Alexander Pope

Source

Ode on Solitude

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1700 1700s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Pope, Alexander. "Ode on Solitude." 1700?

Current Citation

Pope, Alexander. "Ode on Solitude." Essay on Man & Other Poems. Dover, 1994.

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

John Dryden

Fables Ancient and Modern

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Topic

Nature

Speaker

Geoffrey Chaucer

Author

John Dryden

Source

Fables Ancient and Modern

Language

English

Time

1700 1700s 17th century

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Original Citation

Dryden, John, translator. "The Cock and the Fox: Or, The Nun's Priest's Tale, From Chaucer." written by Geoffrey Chaucer. Fables Ancient and Modern. London: Jacob Tonson, 1700.

Current Citation

Dryden, John. "Fables Ancient and Modern." The Works of John Dryden, edited by Vinton A. Dearing. Vol. 7, University of California Press, 2002.

Tis less to be wonder'd at that women marry off in haste, for if they took time to consider and reflect upon it, they seldom would.

Mary Astell

Some Reflections Upon Marriage

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Topic

Marriage

Author

Mary Astell

Source

Some Reflections Upon Marriage

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1700 1700s 18th century

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Original Citation

Astell, Mary. Some Reflections Upon Marriage. London: John Nutt, 1700.

Current Citation

Astell, Mary. "Some Reflections on Marriage." Astell: Political Writings. Cambridge University Press, 1996.

True, 'tis an unhappy circumstance of life that love should ever die before us, and that the Man so often should outlive the Lover. But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

William Congreve

The Way of the World

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Topic

Dangers of love Men and women

Speaker

Mrs. Marwood

Author

William Congreve

Source

The Way of the World

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play) Comedy

Language

English

Time

1700 1700s 18th century

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Original Citation

Congreve, William. The Way of the World. Performed by John Verbruggen and Anne Bracegirdle. Mar. 1700, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Congreve, William. "The Way of the World." The Way of the World and Other Plays, edited by Eric S. Rump. Penguin Classics, 2006, act 2, sc. 1.