Date: Thursday, July 3rd, 1712
"By these Allusions [similitudes, metaphors, and allegories] a Truth in the Understanding is as it were reflected by the Imagination; we are able to see something like Colour and Shape in a Notion, and to discover a Scheme of Thoughts traced out upon Matter"
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: Tuesday, January 15, 1712
"The Pineal Gland, which many of our Modern Philosophers suppose to be the Seat of the Soul, smelt very strong of Essence and Orange-flower Water, and was encompassed with a kind of Horny Substance, cut into a thousand little Faces or Mirrours, which were imperceptible to the naked Eye, insomuch ...
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1712, 1719
"God of the Grape, I'll wisely use / Thy heav'nly Gifts, nor will disclose / Thy sacred Rites; do thou asswage / My burning Soul, and curb thy Rage: / Lest to new hateful Crimes I run: / Lest Vanity seize Reason's Throne, / And wretched I to open Day / The Secrets of the Night betray, / And my He...
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: w. 1703, 1712
"The clear, reflecting Mind, presents his Sin / In frightful Views, and makes it Day within."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
"There is [a Comparison] of great Beauty in Virgil, upon a Subject very like this, where he compares his Hero's Mind, agitated with a great Variety and quick Succession of Thoughts, to a dancing Light reflected from a Vessel of Water in Motion."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715
"Speech was given to Man as the Image and Interpreter of the Soul: It is anime index & speculum, the Messenger of the Heart, the Gate by which all that is within issues forth, and comes into open View."
preview | full record— Bulstrode, Richard, Sir (1610-1711)
Date: 1717
"Thy Heart, Courtwell, is like a Looking-Glass, it presently receives the Image of what is represented before it, and as soon loses it"
preview | full record— Bullock, Christopher (bap. 1690, d. 1722)
Date: 1717
Shakespeare was "the Genius of our Isle, whose Mind / (The universal Mirror of Mankind) / Express'd all Images"
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Date: 1718
"Conscience is at best a doubtful Light"
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
Date: 1722
"O! what a felicity is it to Mankind, said I, to myself, that they cannot see into the Hearts of one another!"
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)