Date: 1661
"He [Satan] sew'd his Tares of Errors, and did blind / With clouds of darknesse, Man's true eye, the Mind."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1661
"This doth the understanding purge; the eye / O'th' Soul, the Mind from Motes do purifie."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1661
"On this the King pitched his Mind's clear eye, / When he cry'd out, all things are vanity."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1712
"When Man with Reason dignify'd is born, / No Images his naked Mind adorn: / No Sciences or Arts enrich his Brain, / Nor Fancy yet displays her pictur'd Train."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1712
"Our Intellectual, like the Body's Eye, / Whilst in the Womb, no Object can descry; / Yet is dispos'd to entertain the Light, / And judge of Things when offer'd to the Sight."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1712
"The Learned, who with Anatomic Art / Dissect the Mind, and thinking Substance part, / And various Pow'rs and Faculties assert; / Perhaps by such Abstraction of the Mind / Divide the Things, that are in Nature joyn'd."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1718
"Black Guilt involves the World in horrid Night, / And clouds our Intellectual Sight."
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Date: 1730
"Enlarge the Purlieu of my narrow Mind: / In Colours, plain, expose to Reason's Eye, / What, yet, to Reason Nature does deny"
preview | full record— Smedley, Jonathan (1671-1729)
Date: 1732
"With ev'ry Moment [Music] gives new Passions Birth"
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1742
A poet may "to the Eye of Judgement ever shine"
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)