Date: 1737
"Vain Wretch! Ambition fires his Breast, / Impetuous, dire, tormenting Guest!"
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)
Date: 1737
""Alas, my soul! thou pleasing companion of this body, thou fleeting thing that art now deserting it! whither art thou flying? to what unknown scene? all trembling, fearful, and pensive! what now is become of thy former wit and humour? thou shalt jest and be gay no more."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1737
"My Mind resumes the thread it dropt before; / Thoughts, which at Hyde-Park-Corner I forgot, / Meet and rejoin me, in my pensive Grott. "
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1737, 1743
"The People all running to the Capital City, is like a Confluence of all the Animal Spirits to the Heart; a Symptom that the Constitution is in Danger."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1739
The mind's "elect interpreter" is "the Tongue"
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)
Date: 1739
The [soul?] may be taught by the brain instead of the breast
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)
Date: October, 1739
"Bid Fancy quit her fairy cell, / In all her colours drest / While prompt her sallies to control, / Reason, the judge, recalls the soul / To Truth's severest test."
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
Pamela talks to her heart which is a "busy Fool" and a "busy Simpleton"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741
"While an harden'd Mind, that never doubts itself, must be a Stranger to its own Infirmities"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1741
"This will gradually give the Mind a Faculty of surveying many objects at once; as a Room that is richly adorned and hung round with a great Variety of Pictures, strikes the Eye almost at once with all that Variety, especially if they have been well surveyed one by one at first: This makes it hab...
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)