Date: 1715
"My Fancy palls, and takes Distast at Pleasure; / My Soul grows out of Tune, it loaths the World, / Sickens at all the Noise and Folly of it."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1715
"'Tis false! The thinking Soul is somewhat more / Than Symmetry of Atoms well dispos'd, / The Harmony of Matter."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1713, 1719
"Thus I ran Divisions in my Fancy, which made but harsh Musick to my Interiour"
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: February 22, 1723
"If this poor stock / Of artless beauty hath such fatal pow'r, / When you, Arsinoe, have a daughter born, / Beg all deformities of shape and face, / T'insure her quiet from that monster, man! / Who quitting reason, a celestial claim, / To the sweet harmony of souls prefers / A little white and re...
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: February 22, 1723
"At this late hour, / What discord breaks the virtuous harmony, / Which wont to reign within thy pious breast?"
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: 1724
"Alas, my lord! even harmony grows harsh! / Thought's out o'tune, discord has struck my ear, / And my soul jars within me."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: Monday, August 24. 1724
"There is more Harmony, in Love, than in Musick: A Harmony! like that which the old Philosophers imputed to the Spheres! Only Two Spheres are acted; by one, and the same, Intelligence. For the Strings of Two Hearts sympathize, like those of Two Lutes, with correspondent Trepidations."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1725
"The Features of every single Passion must be known; the Relation which that Passion bears to another, must be discover’d; and the Harmony and Discord which result from them must be felt."
preview | full record— Gally, Henry (bap. 1696, d. 1769)
Date: April 30, 1730
"I have often been concerned at the ill success of my worthy friend the CANTABRIGIAN PHILOSOPHER; who happening to jar the string in the harmony of human understanding, among those, who were below his own height; they, instead of subscribing to his doctrine, were for tying him fast, and sending h...
preview | full record— Richard Russel and John Martyn
Date: 1735, 1763
"In fair proportion here describ'd we trace / Each mental beauty, and each moral grace; / Each useful passion taught, its tone design'd / In the nice concord of a well-tun'd mind."
preview | full record— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)