Date: 1717, 1736
"Like Eastern Kings a lazy state they keep, / And close confin'd in their own palace sleep."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1728, 1729, 1736
"She form'd this image of well-bodied air, / With pert flat eyes she window'd well its head, / A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead, / And empty words she gave, and sounding strain, / But senseless, lifeless! idol void and vain!"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1737
"The old project of a window in the bosom, to render the Soul of man visible, is what every honest friend has manifold reason to wish for; yet even that would not do in our case, while you are so far separated from me, and so long."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1773
"A thought, enbosom'd in this heart's recess / Shou'd, rising into act--Ah spare the rest!"
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 2005
"Every competence, deep down in the silence of your interiority, has first to come from the outside, to be slowly sunk in and deposited into some well-constructed cellar whose doors have then to be carefully sealed."
preview | full record— Latour, Bruno (b. 1947)
Date: 2005
"Interiorities are built in the same complicated way as Horus's chamber in the center of the pyramid of Cheops."
preview | full record— Latour, Bruno (b. 1947)
Date: 2009
"As far as I can tell, Quine’s philosophical and political thinking were conducted in two different and hermetically sealed off compartments of his mind."
preview | full record— Feser, Edward (b. 1968)
Date: August 9, 2016
"I just think it is a window into the soul of a person who is just not temperamentally suited to the task."
preview | full record— Kaine, Tim (b. February 26, 1958)