Date: 1702
"The faculties of the Soul, like the parts of the Body, receive nourishment from use, and derive skill as well as they do force and vigour from exercise"
preview | full record— Dennis, John (1658-1734)
Date: 1702 [but see also earlier editions 1648, 1651]
"Thy Paradise, thro' whose fair Hills of Joy / Those Springs of everlasting Vigor range, / Which make Souls drunk with Heav'n, which cleanse away / All Earth from Dust, and Flesh to Spirit change."
preview | full record— Beaumont, Joseph (1616-1699)
Date: 1702
"If my wounded Mind / Could know a Thought of Peace, it would be now."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1700, 1702
"Her thoughtful Soul, labours with some event / Of high import, which bustles like an Embryo / In its dark Room, and longs to be disclos'd."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1703, 1718
"Guilt's infernal Gloom, and horrid Night" may "O'erwhelm [Man's] Intellectual Sight"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1704
"As thro' the Artist's intervening Glass, / Our Eye observes the distant Planets pass; / A little we discover; but allow, / That more remains unseen, than Art can show: / So whilst our Mind it's Knowledge wou'd improve; / (It's feeble Eye intent on Things above) / High as We may, We lift our Rea...
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1704
"For he tells us in the beginning of the Treatise that the Sublime does not so properly persuade us, as it Ravishes and Transports us, and produces in us a certain Admiration mingled with astonishment and with surprise, which is quite another thing than the barely Pleasing or the barely perswadin...
preview | full record— Dennis, John (1658-1734)
Date: 1705, 1712
"[W]ise Men on sound Reason ground Belief: / How that they find what for the Soul is good, / As by their Smell and Taste they judge their Food; / For who but each Man's Reason ought to try / 'Tis Faith, who must be sav'd or damn'd thereby."
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: Read 1680-1681, published 1705
"But of this, and the manner of contracting of the Pupil, more, when I come to explain that part of the Eye; that which intention it for at present is, only to explain how the Eye becomes as it were a Hand, by which the Brain feels, and touches (the Objects, by creating a Motion in the Retina, th...
preview | full record— Hooke, Robert (1635-1703)
Date: 1706
"The Marble Heart groans with an inward Wound: / Blaspheming Souls of harden'd Steel / Shriek out amaz'd at the new Pangs they feel, / And dread the Eccho's of the Sound."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)