Date: 1675
"Who th' Image yet unborn did entertain, / And hous'd the Theater within his Brain."
preview | full record— Leigh, Richard (1649/50-1728)
Date: 1675
"The Intellectual Theater appear'd, / As in the Fancy by a Builder rear'd."
preview | full record— Leigh, Richard (1649/50-1728)
Date: 1675
"Many such Theaters lodge in that Breast, / Where this at largest, a small space possest."
preview | full record— Leigh, Richard (1649/50-1728)
Date: 1684
"In proper Cells her large capacious Brain / The images of all things does contain, / As bright almost as were th'Ideas laid, / In the last model e'er the World was made."
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1689
"For such a Gift, as t'have that Gemam possest, / Not of your Cabinet, but of your Breast."
preview | full record— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)
Date: 1703
"When Souls are first to their close Rooms confin'd, / Nothing of their Celestial Make is seen, / Obscuring Earth does interpose between"
preview | full record— Chudleigh [née Lee], Mary, Lady Chudleigh (bap. 1656, d. 1710)
Date: 1703
"The streiten'd Intellect immur'd does lie, / Shut up within a narrow place, / Till Nature does enlarge the Space, / And by degrees the Organs fit, / For those great Operations which are wrought by it."
preview | full record— Chudleigh [née Lee], Mary, Lady Chudleigh (bap. 1656, d. 1710)
Date: 1735
"Hope may some boundless Future Bliss embrace, / But What, or When, or How, or Where, / Are Mazes all, which Fancy runs in vain"
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1735
"Nor can the narrow Cells of human Brain / The vast immeasurable Thought contain"
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1736
"In her own Breast she seeks a calm Repose, / And shuns the crowded Rooms of Belles and Beaux"
preview | full record— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)