Date: 1667
"For, though Man's Soul, and Body are not onely one natural Engine (as some have thought) of whose motions of all sorts, there may be as certain an accompt given, as those of a Watch or a Clock"
preview | full record— Sprat, Thomas (bap. 1635, d. 1713)
Date: 1712
"See, how resistless Orators perswade, / Draw out their Forces, and the Heart invade: / Touch ev'ry Spring and Movement of the Soul, / This Appetite excite, and That controul."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1712
"What Philosophic Builder will essay / By Rules Mechanic to unfold the way / How a Machine must be dispos'd to think, / Ideas how to frame, and how to link?"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1712
Lucretius and Epicurus are asked, "How to the Mind a Thought reflected goes, / And how the conscious Engine knows it Knows."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1712
"Tell us, Lucretius, Epicurus, tell, / And you in Wit unrival'd shall excel, / How thro' the outward Sense the Object flies, / How in the Soul her Images arise. / What Thinking, what Perception is, explain; / What all the airy Creatures of the Brain; / How to the Mind a Thought reflected goes, / ...
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)