Date: 1705
"It did the curious Instruments confound, / And all the winding Labarynths of Sound, / The charming Musick-Rooms, that entertain / The Soul high seated in her Throne the Brain."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1705
A monarch may make "all her Subjects" "Friends to her Empire and "in their Hearts" lay "its deep Foundations"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1705
A bullet may efface "The num'rous Lodgings, which did entertain / All Mem'ry's crowded Guests, and Fancy's aeiry Train."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: Read 1680-1681, published 1705
"Memory then conceive to be nothing else but a Repository of Ideas formed partly by the Senses, but chiefly by the Soul it self: I say, partly by the Senses, because they are as it were the Collectors or Carriers of the Impressions made by Objects from without, delivering them to the Repository o...
preview | full record— Hooke, Robert (1635-1703)
Date: 1706
"Yes Sir, be certain on't, she shall be try'd; / Thro' all the winding Mazes of her Thoughts."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1706
One may be "Lord of [his] own Tenement, and keep [his] Houshold in Order"
preview | full record— Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)
Date: 1708
"But round their Sockets did he rowl / The little Windows of his Soul"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"There is no end of Thought--the Labyrinth winds, / And I am lost for ever."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1708
"'I cannot think but that the same thing which I am in search of, once dwelt here, but has now deserted his Habitation and left it empty, and that the Absence of that thing, has occasion'd this Privation of Sense and Cessation of Motion, which happen'd to the Body.' Now when he perceiv'd that the...
preview | full record— Ockley, Simon (bap. 1679, d. 1720)
Date: 1708
"And now he Apprehended plainly that every particular Animal, tho' it had a great many Limbs, and variety of Senses and Motions, was nevertheless One in respect of that Spirit, whose Original was from one firm Mansion, viz. the Heart, from whence, its Influence was diffus'd among all the Members."
preview | full record— Ockley, Simon (bap. 1679, d. 1720)