Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706
"I shall not here enquire, though it may seem probable, that the Constitution of the Body does sometimes influence the Memory; since we oftentimes find a Disease quite strip the Mind of all its Ideas, and the flames of a Fever, in a few days, calcine all those Images to dust and confusion, which ...
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706
"The Dominion of Man, in this little World of his own Understanding, being muchwhat the same, as it is in the great World of visible things: wherein his Power, however managed by Art and Skill, reaches no farther, than to compound and divide the Materials, that are made to his Hand; but can do no...
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1693
"These two Load-Stones do so strongly Attract my Heart. That (like Mahomets Iron-Coffin) I am poys'd & supported in the Air between Both."
preview | full record— Higden, Henry (bap. 1645)
Date: 1694
"Pray mind me, Sir, to shew my Shape and Aire; that as the Loadstone does the Obedient Iron--should draw by force to me all Hearts but yours--."
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1697
"What Cause can you assign able to produce the first Thought at the end of this Sleep and Silence, in a total Ecclipse and intermission of Thinking?"
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)
Date: 1715-1720
"This strong and ruling Faculty was like a powerful Planet, which in the Violence of its Course, drew all things within its Vortex."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1717, 1736
"As into air the purer spirits flow, / And sep'rate from their kindred dregs below; / So flew the soul to its congenial place"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1727
"But each Man's secret Standard in his Mind, / That casting Weight, Pride adds to Emptiness"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1728
"Gold is the Load-stone of the Great, / And vulgar Souls must catch the glitt'ring Bait."
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)
Date: 1733
"Be wise and pannick fright disdain, / At notions, meteors of the brain"
preview | full record— Green, Matthew (1696-1737) [pseud. Peter Drake, a Fisherman of Brentford]