1700s · Skopia

Showing 28 works across all media from the 1700s

Louis XIV

Portrait · Baroque

Louis XIV

Hyacinthe Rigaud

1701 · Louvre, Paris

At sixty-three the king still turns out one leg to show the dancer's calf he was proud of, under a cascade of ermine and fleurs-de-lis.

★ 7.2

Nonfiction · Travel literature

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

1702 · 167 pages

Basho sold his house and walked hundreds of miles into northern Japan, writing prose that stops for a haiku. At a battlefield he finds summer grass, all that remains of warriors' dreams.

★ 7.1

Treatise · Scientific literature

God in the Beginning form'd Matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable Particles, of such Sizes and Figures, and with such other Properties, and in such Proportion to Space, as most conduced to the End for which he form'd them.

Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light · 1704

★ 5.4

The end must justify the means.

Hans Carvel · 1700

★ 5.3

Religious literature

None so blind as those that will not see.

Commentaries (Henry) · 1706

★ 5.3

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

1702

★ 3.8

Treatise · Scientific literature

Whence is it that Nature does nothing in vain: and whence arises all that Order and Beauty which we see in the World?... does it not appear from Phenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite Space, as it were in his Sensory, sees the things themselves intimately, and throughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly.

Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light · 1704

★ 3.7

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

1700

★ 3.6

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

1700

★ 3.6

We live and learn, but not the wiser grow.

Reason · 1700

★ 3.6

Political literature

Nature has left this Tincture in the Blood, That all Men wou'd be Tyrants if they cou'd.

1701

★ 3.6

Actions receive their tincture from the times, And as they change, are virtues made or crimes.

1703

★ 3.6

Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.

1701

★ 3.5

Political literature

If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.

Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun

1703

★ 3.5

From the first dawn of life unto the grave, Poor womankind's in every state a slave.

1703

★ 3.5

Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.

William Congreve

Hymn to Harmony · 1703

★ 3.5

When I survey the wondrous cross On which the prince of glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.

When I Survey the Wondrous Cross · 1707

★ 3.5

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

Fables Ancient and Modern · 1700

★ 2.1

Wife and Servant are the same, But only differ in the name.

To the Ladies · 1703

★ 2.0

They dream in Courtship, but in Wedlock wake.

1704

★ 2.0

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.

1704

★ 2.0

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

Some Reflections Upon Marriage · 1706

★ 2.0

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.

Some Reflections Upon Marriage · 1700

★ 1.9

The great design of art is to restore the decays that happened to human nature by the fall, by restoring order.

1704

★ 1.9

Wheree'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade: Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.

1709

★ 1.9

Play · Comedy (play) · Comedy

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 · 1700

★ 1.8

Then shun, oh! shun that wretched state And all the fawning flatterers hate: Value yourselves, and men despise You must be proud if you'll be wise.

To the Ladies · 1703

★ 1.1

Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.

1709

★ 1.1