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Date: 1712
"So have I seen the Baker's Hand bestow / All sorts of Figures on the kneaded Dough."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (1675-1713); Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718); Quillet, Claudius (fl.1640-1656)
Date: 1712
"For when the Blood shall with a sudden Start, / Run to the Caverns of the Womb and Heart, / A chilling Fear will all your Hopes defeat, / Whose Icy Flood destroys the forming Heat" and result in "an Abortive Birth."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (1675-1713); Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718); Quillet, Claudius (fl.1640-1656)
Date: 1712
"Man is the Universe, in little shown, / The scatter'd Beauties here are joyn'd in one, / In him the several Motions are explain'd, / And the great World is in the less contain'd"
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (1675-1713); Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718); Quillet, Claudius (fl.1640-1656)
Date: 1712
"The God of Light sends down his streaming Rays / On the warm'd Earth, and chears with smiling Days. / And thus the central Heart the Source contains / Of vital Heat, and in its Cavern strains / The bubling Streams, that stretch the swelling Veins."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (1675-1713); Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718); Quillet, Claudius (fl.1640-1656)
Date: 1714, 1723
"The passing Minds their former Load sustain, / Are born, tho' loth, and sheath'd in Flesh again."
preview | full record— Hughes, Jabez (1685-1731)
Date: 1717
"But Man would yet look wondrous wise. / And equal Chains of Thought devise."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: 1718
"Epicurus, that it [sperm] is a Fragment torn from the Body and Soul."
preview | full record— Plutarch (c. 46-120)
Date: 1718
""Lausippus and Zeno, [sperm] 'tis a Body, and it is a Fragment of the Soul."
preview | full record— Plutarch (c. 46-120)
Date: 1727
"Death's cold Hand arrests the Fears / That haunt the Coward's Mind"
preview | full record— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Date: 1733
"I love to pour out all myself, as plain / As downright Shippen, or as old Montagne. / In them, as certain to be lov'd as seen, / The Soul stood forth, nor kept a Thought within; / In me what Spots (for Spots I have) appear, / Will prove at least the Medium must be clear."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
