Date: 1691
"Within the inner Closet of my Brain / Attend the nobler Members of my Train; / Invention, Master of my Mint, grows there, / And Memory, my faithful Treasurer."
preview | full record— Dunton, John (1659–1732)
Date: 1752
"'But you understand Human Nature to the Bottom,' answered Amelia;' and your Mind is a Treasury of all ancient and modern Learning.'"
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)