Date: 1691
"Instead of those sage and grave Notions that used to fill my Head, 'twas cramm'd top full of Whimseys and Whirligigs, by the vehement agitation of my distemper'd Fancy, as ever a Carkase-shell with Instruments of Death and Murder."
preview | full record— Dunton, John (1659–1732)
Date: 1691
'My very Brains (as Manichæus's Skin) are stuff'd with Chaff."
preview | full record— Dunton, John (1659–1732)
Date: 1708
Now among other things of this kind which he discover'd, it appear'd to him that the Animal Spirit, which is Seal'd in the Heart (as we have mention'd before) must necessarily have some Quality superadded to its Corporeity, which rendred it capable of those wonderful Actions, different Sensations...
preview | full record— Ockley, Simon (bap. 1679, d. 1720)
Date: 1760-7
"But the heat gradually increasing, and in a few seconds more getting beyond the point of all sober pleasure, and then advancing with all speed into the regions of pain,--the soul of Phutatorius, together with all his ideas, his thoughts, his attention, his imagination, judgment, resolution, deli...
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)