Date: 1273
"But for the retention and preservation of these forms, the 'phantasy' or 'imagination' is appointed; which are the same, for phantasy or imagination is as it were a storehouse of forms received through the senses."
preview | full record— St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
Date: 1273
"Furthermore, for the apprehension of intentions which are not received through the senses, the 'estimative' power is appointed: and for the preservation thereof, the 'memorative' power, which is a storehouse of such-like intentions."
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Date: 1273
"On the contrary, From its nature the memory is the treasury or storehouse of species."
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Date: 1675
"Since our minds are the Magazines of true wealth, and why should we expect that from Strangers, which we may bestow upon our Selves?"
preview | full record— Le Grand, Antoine (1629-1699)
Date: w. c. 1709, 1711
"Tutors, like Virtuoso's, oft inclin'd / By strange transfusion to improve the mind, / Draw off the sense we have, to pour in new; / Which yet with all their skill, they ne'er could do."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: w. c. 1709, 1711
"For as in Bodies, thus in Souls, we find / What wants in Blood and Spirits, swell'd with Wind: / Pride, where Wit fails, steps in to our Defence, / And fills up all the mighty Void of Sense!"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1714 [1712, 1717]
"Then gay Ideas crowd the vacant Brain, / While Peers and Dukes, and all their sweeping Train, / And Garters, Stars, and Coronets appear, / And in soft sounds, Your Grace salutes their Ear."
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Date: 1737, 1743
"It is with narrow-soul'd People as with narrow-neck'd Bottles: The less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring it out."
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Date: 1747
"The figures, which must actuate her, remain / As yet quite uncollected in the brain; / Exterior objects have not furnish' yet / Th' ideal stores which Age is sure to get."
preview | full record— Cardinal Melchior de Polignac (1661-1741)
Date: 1975
"In the preceding months he had prepared himself with meticulous care, filling his mind with distilled knowledge, drop by drop, until, on the eve of the first paper (Old English Set Texts) it was almost brimming over."
preview | full record— Lodge, David (b. 1935)