Date: 1705
"Nature is a kind of Harmony, which by a strange Collection of Things, makes an Impression on our Senses and our Reason."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1707, 1709
"So fell Great Britains Orpheus in his Rage, / When Furies in his Breast began to howl, / And Cares that wait on Life's uncertain Stage, / Had quite untun'd his Soul."
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: Tuesday, November 20, 1750
"Yet, if we consider the conduct of those sententious philosophers, it will often be found, that they repeat these aphorisms, merely because they have somewhere heard them, because they have nothing else to say, or because they think veneration gained by such appearances of wisdom, but that no id...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: Saturday, January 25, 1752
"Whatever may be the native vigour of the mind, she can never form many combinations from few ideas, as many changes cannot be rung upon a few bells."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)