Date: 1704
"For he tells us in the beginning of the Treatise that the Sublime does not so properly persuade us, as it Ravishes and Transports us, and produces in us a certain Admiration mingled with astonishment and with surprise, which is quite another thing than the barely Pleasing or the barely perswadin...
preview | full record— Dennis, John (1658-1734)
Date: 1725
"The Mind has its peculiar Features as well as the Body; and these must be represented in their genuine and native Colours, that so the Picture may strike, and every Reader, who is concern’d in the Work, may presently discover himself; and those, who are unconcern’d may, nevertheless, immediately...
preview | full record— Gally, Henry (bap. 1696, d. 1769)
Date: 1725
"We have all of us different Souls, and our Souls have Affections as different from one another, as our outward Faces are in their Lineaments."
preview | full record— Gally, Henry (bap. 1696, d. 1769)