Date: 1691
"Reason and Sense do from thy Concords fly, / For th' Human Soul it self's but Harmony."
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1692
"Watch her softest hours, when her Soul's in Tune to join with the Harmony of Love: After her Mind has been employ'd in Romances, Plays, and Novels, then nought but sweet Ideas fill her Soul, and Love can't be denied admittance, those having so well prepar'd its way."
preview | full record— Gildon, Charles (1665-1724)
Date: 1697
"Thence thro' his Skull it passage did obtain, / And pierc'd the inmost Marrow of the Brain; / Where the melodious Strings of Sense are found / Up to a due and just extension wound; / All tun'd for Life, and fitted to receive / Th'harmonious strokes which outward Objects give."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1700, 1705
"Wit, like the jangling Chimes, rings all in one, / Till Sense, the Artist, sets them into Tune."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1701
"Which are but tantalizing Amusements that debauch our Genius when they are once over, and Fatigue allows us a serious interval; with what regret do we reflect upon our Folly, in letting our Appetites govern our Reason, and like the Sirens Song charm us into Ruine."
preview | full record— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)
Date: 1702 [but see also earlier editions 1648, 1651]
"My Soul untun'd, unstrung, doth wait on Thee / To teach her how to sing thy MYSTERY."
preview | full record— Beaumont, Joseph (1616-1699)
Date: 1702
"Nay, yet more, / My Soul seems pleas'd to take acquaintance with thee, / As if ally'd to thine: Perhaps 'tis Sympathy / Of honest Minds; Like Strings wound up in Musick, / Where by one touch, both utter the same Harmony."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1700, 1702
"Forget that thought, / That jarring grates your Soul, and turns the Harmony / Of blessed Peace to curst infernal Discord."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1704
"Nay, wise Men and great Philosophers, have accounted it as the Archet or Musical Bow of the Mind. And certainly it is most true, and as it were a Secret of Nature, that the Minds of Men are more patent to Affections, and Impressions Congregate than Solitary."
preview | full record— Dennis, John (1658-1734)
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)