Date: 1741
"This will gradually give the Mind a Faculty of surveying many objects at once; as a Room that is richly adorned and hung round with a great Variety of Pictures, strikes the Eye almost at once with all that Variety, especially if they have been well surveyed one by one at first: This makes it hab...
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"Such then is the abode / Of folly in the mind; and such the shapes / In which she governs her obsequious train."
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)