Date: w. 1703, 1712
"The clear, reflecting Mind, presents his Sin / In frightful Views, and makes it Day within."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: w. 1703, 1712
"And all the Furies wake within their Breast."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: w. 1703, 1712
"Returning Thoughts in endless Circles roll, / And thousand Furies haunt his guilty Soul."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1714, 1723
"Tormenting Doubts my troubled Soul perplex, / But my steel'd Breast no certain Fears can vex."
preview | full record— Hughes, Jabez (1685-1731)
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."
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Date: 1718
""Lausippus and Zeno, [sperm] 'tis a Body, and it is a Fragment of the Soul."
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Date: 1718
"Pythagoras, Plato and Aristotle, that the Spermatick Faculty is incorporeal, as the Mind is which moves the Body, but the effused Matter is corporeal."
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Date: 1724, 1787
"Sure thou wilt weep, and tender sorrows feel; / Nor flint thy heart, nor is thy breast of steel."
preview | full record— Welsted, Leonard (1688-1747)