Date: 1739
A mind may be a mind so "famish'd for Drollery, that can taste the silly things this Play is season'd with"
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller James (1706-1744); Molière (1622-1673)
Date: 1739
"I have had some Scruples, Madam, and opened the Eyes of my Mind upon what I was a doing"
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller James (1706-1744); Molière (1622-1673)
Date: 1739
"Ye Angels speak! / For ye alone are like her; or present / Such Visions pictur'd to the nightly Eye / Of Fancy trans'd in Bliss."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1739
"How poor thy Pow'r, how empty is thy Happiness, / When such a Wretch, as I appear to be, / Can ride thy Temper, harrow up thy Form, / And stretch thy Soul upon the Rack of Passion."
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1739
"Where lives the Man whose Reason slumbers not?"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1742
"The poet says, he makes this courtesan worse than Circe; for she changed the minds and internal disposition of her followers, whereas Circe, as Homer expressly remarks, metamorphosed only their outward form"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754) and The Reverend William Young (d.1757); Aristophanes (c.448-c.380 B.C.)
Date: 1745
"Bear Witness, Heaven! Thou Mind-inspecting Eye! / My Breast is pure."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1755
"Can the troubled Brain / Of Sleep out-stretch the Reason's waking Eye?"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1756
"Oh! my dear love, quick, quickly drive away / Those boding thoughts which on your quiet prey; / The breed of Fancy, gender'd in the brain, / Nurs'd by the grosser spirits, light, and vain; / The vagrant visions of the sleeping mind, / Which vanish wak'd, nor leave a mark behind."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: 1756
"Let then my soul and body be a-kin, / Naked without, as desolate within."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)