Date: w. 1702-1713, 1989
"His life proves restless & his labour vain / By hurrying after Phantomes of the brain."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: w. 1702, 1713
"Here forc'd Description is so strangely wrought, / It never stamps its Image on the Thought"
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Date: 1758
"My mourning heart is melted in my frame / As wax dissolving runs before a flame"
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Date: 1758
"As seals their pictures to the wax impart, / So let my picture stamp thy gentle heart"
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Date: 1762
"Therefore, I have no one notion, / That is not form'd, like the designing / Of the peristaltick motion; / Vermicular; twisting and twining; / Going to work / Just like a bottle-skrew upon a cork."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)