Date: 1713, 1734

"You cannot say objects are in your mind, as books in your study: or that things are imprinted on it, as the figure of a seal upon wax."

— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)

Date: 1713, 1734

"I have been a long time distrusting my senses; methought I saw things by a dim light, and through false glasses."

— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)

Date: 1713

Cleopatra "justly cou'd a Nobler Empire boast / In Cæsar's Heart, than Ptolomy had lost"

— Smith, John (fl. 1713)

Date: 1713

When music plays, "Intestine war no more our Passions wage, / And giddy Factions hear away their rage."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1713

"Now that within Nocturnal Shell / Pale Visionary Glimm'rings dwell, / By Demonstration I'll evince, / And Testimony of the Sense."

— Smith, John (fl. 1713)

Date: 1713

"Affection can th' External Senses blind, / And stamps such deep Impressions on the Mind"

— Smith, John (fl. 1713)

Date: 1713

Wine may gild "the Thought with Chymick Art"

— Smith, John (fl. 1713)

Date: 1713

Wine may "into Riches" stamp and coin the Heart

— Smith, John (fl. 1713)

Date: 1713, 1734

"Look you, Hylas, when I speak of Objects, as existing in the Mind, or imprinted on the Senses; I wou'd not be understood in the gross, literal Sense, as when Bodies are said to exist in a place, or a Seal to make an Impression upon Wax."

— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)

Date: September 15, 1713

"These are generally persons who, in Shakespear's phrase, are worn and hackney'd in the Ways of Men; whose imaginations are grown Callous, and have lost all those delicate Sentiments which are natural to Minds that are innocent and undepraved."

— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)