Date: 1736
"A thousand Pleasures crowd into his Breast."
preview | full record— Fitzgerald, Thomas (1695-1752)
Date: 1737
"Souls for ever live: / But often their old Habitations leave, / To dwell in new; which them, as Guests, receive."
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)
Date: 1737
"Confounded with the Crowd of various Thoughts, / And stiff'ning with Amaze, the Hero stood, / In Silence deep."
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)
Date: 1737
"Vain Wretch! Ambition fires his Breast, / Impetuous, dire, tormenting Guest!"
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)
Date: 1737
""Alas, my soul! thou pleasing companion of this body, thou fleeting thing that art now deserting it! whither art thou flying? to what unknown scene? all trembling, fearful, and pensive! what now is become of thy former wit and humour? thou shalt jest and be gay no more."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1737
"My Mind resumes the thread it dropt before; / Thoughts, which at Hyde-Park-Corner I forgot, / Meet and rejoin me, in my pensive Grott. "
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Date: 1737, 1743
"The People all running to the Capital City, is like a Confluence of all the Animal Spirits to the Heart; a Symptom that the Constitution is in Danger."
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Date: January 1739
"The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance; pass, repass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations."
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Date: 1739
The mind's "elect interpreter" is "the Tongue"
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)
Date: 1739
The [soul?] may be taught by the brain instead of the breast
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)