Date: 1661
"He [Satan] sew'd his Tares of Errors, and did blind / With clouds of darknesse, Man's true eye, the Mind."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1661
"This doth the understanding purge; the eye / O'th' Soul, the Mind from Motes do purifie."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1661
"On this the King pitched his Mind's clear eye, / When he cry'd out, all things are vanity."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1703, 1718
"Guilt's infernal Gloom, and horrid Night" may "O'erwhelm [Man's] Intellectual Sight"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1704
"Who then wou'd court the Pomp of guilty Power, / When the Mind sickens at the weary Shew, / And flies to temporary Death for Ease."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1705, 1714, 1732
There are the curious "that are skill'd in anatomizing the invisible Part of Man"
preview | full record— Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733)
Date: 1729
"Among the helluones librorum, the Cormorants of Books, there are wretched Reasoners, that have canine Appetites, and no Digestion."
preview | full record— Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733)
Date: 1731
"I am unpractis'd in the Arts of Court; / And my free Thoughts range open as my Eye-balls."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: September 27, 1746
"Painful reflection! poyson to my mind!"
preview | full record— Hervey, John, second Baron Hervey of Ickworth (1696-1743)
Date: 1763, 1770
"Yes, doubtless, steel'd--but still he show'd a heart, / As soft, as Cleopatra's softest part."
preview | full record— Thompson, Edward (1738-1786)