Date: 1700

"My Thoughts should like their Silver Fishes shine, / With quick, bright glitterings thro' each moving line."

— Hopkins, John (b. 1675)

Date: 1702

Some Objects may "promote our Joy, are bright to the Eye, or stamp upon our Minds, Pleasure, and Self-satisfaction"

— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)

Date: 1704

"[M]an was an animal compounded of two dresses, the natural and the celestial suit, which were the body and soul; that the soul was the outward, and the body the inward clothing"

— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)

Date: 1704

"[A]s the face of nature never produces rain but when it is overcast and disturbed, so human understanding, seated in the brain, must be troubled and overspread by vapours ascending from the lower faculties to water the invention, and render it fruitful."

— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)

Date: 1704

"To my warm Soul such deep Impression give,"

— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730)

Date: 1704

"[A]s the face of nature never produces rain but when it is overcast and disturbed,so human understanding, seated in the brain, must be troubled and overspread by vapours ascending from the lower faculties to water the invention, and render it fruitful."

— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)

Date: 1709

"Complex Ideas are the Creatures of the Mind"

— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)

Date: 1710

"Now, thought is to the mind what motion is to the body; both are equally improved by exercise and impaired by disuse"

— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)

Date: 1710

Ideas may be brought "bare and naked" into one's view, keeping out" the names.

— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)

Date: 1710

Ideas may be brought "bare and naked" into one's view, keeping out" the names

— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)