Date: 1784
"Thy piercing thought / Unaided saw each movement of the mind, / As skilful artists view the small machine, / The secret springs and nice dependencies, / And to thy mimic scenes, by fancy wrought / To such a wond'rous shape, th'impassion'd breast / In floods of grief, or peals of laughter bow'd, ...
preview | full record— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)
Date: w. 1943, 1944
"The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only be reading old books."
preview | full record— Lewis, C. S. (1898-1963)