Date: 1712
"Our Intellectual, like the Body's Eye, / Whilst in the Womb, no Object can descry; / Yet is dispos'd to entertain the Light, / And judge of Things when offer'd to the Sight."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1712
"The Learned, who with Anatomic Art / Dissect the Mind, and thinking Substance part, / And various Pow'rs and Faculties assert; / Perhaps by such Abstraction of the Mind / Divide the Things, that are in Nature joyn'd."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1714
The Soul returns "Naked from off this Beach and perfect Blank, / To visit the New World"
preview | full record— Evans, Abel (1679-1737)
Date: 1714 [1712, 1717]
"Her lively Looks a sprightly Mind disclose, / Quick as her Eyes, and as unfix'd as those."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)