Date: 1745
"Ha! my Brain / Is all on fire! a wild Abyss of Thought!"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1754
"This is the great intellectual province, wherein our minds range with much freedom, and often with exorbitant licence, in the pursuit of real or imaginary science."
preview | full record— St John, Henry, styled first Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751)