Date: w. c. 1210
"As a prudent workman, construct the whole fabric within the mind's citadel; let it exist in the mind before it is on the lips."
preview | full record— Vinsauf, Geoffrey of [called Galfridus Anglicus] (fl. 1208-1213)
Date: 1384
"O Thought, that wroot al that I mette, / And in the tresorie hit shette / Of my brayn!"
preview | full record— Chaucer, Geoffrey (c. 1340-1400)
Date: 1389
"The innere witte is departed a þre by þre regiouns of þe brayn, for in þe brayne beþ þre smale celles."
preview | full record— Trevisa, John (b. c. 1342, d. in or before 1402); Bartholomeus (1203-1272)
Date: 1604
"How are the Soule and Body, Spirite and Flesh coupled together, what chaynes, what fetters imprison a spirituall Substance, an immortal Spirit in so base, stinking; and corruptible a carkasse?"
preview | full record— Wright, Thomas (c. 1561-1623)
Date: 1698
"Nay, such Gentlemen would be much offended their Houses should not be clean Swept, and Garnish'd; yet, they are not, in the least, concern'd, that Cobwebs should hang in the Windows of their Intellect, and Dusty Ignorance dim and blear the Sight of the Noble Inhabitant."
preview | full record— Sergeant, John (1622-1707)
Date: 1698
"Your Bulwarks, Entrenchments and Redoubts lay so cunningly hid in your Way of Ideas, that they were altogether Invisible; so that the most quick-sighted Engineer living could not discern them, or take any sure Aim at them: Much less such a Dull Eye as mine; who, tho' I bend my Sight as strongly ...
preview | full record— Sergeant, John (1622-1707)
Date: 1698
"For, in case those Impressions on our Mind could have been made by means of the Senses, as aforesaid; then those Impressions, or Notions, being the Immediate Foundation, on which is built all our Knowledge, could not be call'd, or resembl'd to Rubbish; nor compar'd to a Hole, to lay the Foundati...
preview | full record— Sergeant, John (1622-1707)
Date: 1714 [1712, 1717]
"They shift the moving Toyshop of their Heart; / Where Wigs with Wigs, with Sword-knots Sword-knots strive, / Beaus banish Beaus, and Coaches Coaches drive"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1714 [1712, 1717]
"Just in that instant, anxious Ariel sought / The close Recesses of the Virgin's thought."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: August 18, 1716; 1735
"If Momus’s project had taken, of having windows in our breasts, I should be for carrying it further, and making those windows casements: that while a man showed his heart to all the world, he might do something more for his friends, e’en take it out, and trust to their handling."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)