Date: 1728
"Then infant Reason grows apace, and calls / For the kind Hand of an assiduous Care: / Delightful Task! to rear the tender Thought, / To teach the young Idea how to shoot, / To pour the fresh Instruction o'er the Mind, / To breathe th' inspiring Spirit, and to plant / The generous Purpose in...
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1728
"When Love in an impetuous Torrent flows, / How vainly Reason would its Force oppose; / Hurl'd down the Stream, like Flowers before the Wind, / She leaves to Love, the Empire of the Mind."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: 1729
"But the Seeds of every Passion are innate to us and no body comes into the World without them"
preview | full record— Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733)
Date: 1730
"This would effectually kill in us all the little seeds of pride, vanity and self-conceit, which are apt to shoot up in the minds of such whose thoughts turn more on those comparative advantages which they enjoy over some of their fellow-creatures, than on that infinite distance which is placed b...
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1731, 1753
"Shines there a captain, form'd, for war's controul, / Born, with the seeds of conquest, in his soul?"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1731
"[F]or since the Mind and Intellect is in it self a more real and substantial Thing, and fuller of Entity than Matter and Body, those Things which are the pure Offspring of the Mind, and sprout from the Soul it self, must needs be more real and substantial than those Things which blossom from the...
preview | full record— Cudworth, Ralph (1617-1688)
Date: 1731
"When I confess, abhorrent of Deceit, / That Love, which seem'd to root my Soul in thee, / Has new transplanted it, to Elfrid's Bosom?"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1731
"Proud of Dominion, yet enslav'd to Fear, / Kings who love Blood, thro' one long Tempest steer, / While the calm Monarch, who with Smiles controuls, / Roots his safe Empire, and is King of Souls."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1732
"You must know, said he, that the mind of man may be fitly compared to a piece of land. What stubbing, ploughing, digging, and harrowing is to the one, that thinking, reflecting, examining is to the other."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1732
"Each hath its proper culture; and as land that is suffered to lie waste and wild for a long tract of time will be overspread with brushwood, brambles, thorns, and such vegetables which have neither use nor beauty; even so there will not fail to sprout up in a neglected, uncultivated mind, a grea...
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)