Date: 1744
"As the body is said to clothe the soul, so the nerves may be said to constitute her inner garment."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Where virtue, rising from the awful depth / Of truth's mysterious bosom, doth forsake / The unadorn'd condition of her birth; / And dress'd by fancy in ten thousand hues, / Assumes a various feature, to attract, / With charms responsive to each gazer's eye, / The hearts of men."
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"What? like a storm from their capacious bed / The sounding seas o'erwhelming, when the might / Of these eruptions, working from the depth / Of man's strong apprehension, shakes his frame / Even to the base; from every naked sense / Of pain or pleasure dissipating all / Opinion's feeble coverings...
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Moreover, from without / When oft the same society of forms / In the same order have approach'd his mind, / He deigns no more their steps with curious heed / To trace; no more their features or their garb / He now examines; but of them and their / Condition, as with some diviner's tongue, / Affi...
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1745
"The Ideas must be cloathed in a bodily Form, to make it visible and palpable to the gross Understanding."
preview | full record— Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)
Date: 1747-8
"Yet her charming body is not equally organized. The unequal partners pull two ways; and the divinity within her tears her silken frame."
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1748, 1754
"He, therefore, who is provided with such Armour, taken, if we may say so, from the Armory of Heaven, may be proof against the sharpest Arrows of Fortune, and defy the Impotence of human Malice; and though he cannot be secure against those Ills which are the ordinary Appendages of Man's Lot, yet ...
preview | full record— Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)
Date: August 12, 1738, to Nov. 1, 1739 [1748]
"Therefore the Eyes of my Understanding are not yet open'd, but the Old Veil is still upon my Heart."
preview | full record— Wesley, John (1703-1791)
Date: Saturday, November 10, 1750
"It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honour and fictitious benevolence."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1754
"Maecenas would laugh at any Irregularity in Horace's Dress, but not at any Caprice in his Behaviour, because it was common and fashionable: so a Man's Person, which is the Dress of his Soul, only is ridiculed, while the vicious Qualities of it escape."
preview | full record— Hay, William (1695-1755)