Date: 1715-1720
"Longinus in his 22d Chapter commends this Figure, as causing a Reader to become a Spectator, and keeping his Mind fixed upon the Action before him."
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Date: 1715-1720
"To cast one's Eye, means but to reflect upon, or to revolve in one's Mind"
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Date: 1715-1720
"Yet should the Fears that wary Mind suggests / Spread their cold Poison thro' our Soldier's Breasts, / My Javelin can revenge so base a Part, / And free the Soul that quivers in thy Heart."
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Date: 1715-1720
"Ill-fated Paris ! Slave to Womankind, / As smooth of Face as fraudulent of Mind"
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Date: 1715-1720
"He sprinkles healing Balmes, to Anguish kind, / And adds Discourse, the Med'cine of the Mind."
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Date: 1715-1720
Aristotle observes, "that when Homer is obliged to describe any thing of itself absurd or too improbable, he constantly contrives to blind and dazle the Judgment of his Readers with some shining Description."
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Date: 1715-1720
"And yet no dire Presage so wounds my Mind, / My Mother's Death, the Ruin of my Kind, / Not Priam 's hoary Hairs defil'd with Gore, / Not all my Brothers gasping on the Shore; / As thine, Andromache!"
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Date: 1718
Were it not for the Optic Nerves, the eyes might conspire the ruin of the mind: "That They shou'd see and She be blind."
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Date: c. 1718 [published 1907]
"My mind like Telephus's hurt is found. */ The cause that gave can only Cure the wound."
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Date: 1723
"But turn the Tables and reflect, / All may not be, that you suspect: / By the Mind's Eye, the Horns, we mean, / Are only in Ideas seen, / 'Tis from the inside of the Head / Their Branches shoot, their Antlers spread; / Fruitful Suspicions often bear them, / You feel 'em from the Time you fear 'em."
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