Date: 1722, 1726
"'Twas when the night in silent sable fled, / When chearful morning sprung with rising red, / When dreams and vapours leave to crowd the brain"
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
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."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1724
"And ev'ry one begins to find / The same impression on his mind."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: 1727
"But each Man's secret Standard in his Mind, / That casting Weight, Pride adds to Emptiness"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: March 13, 1727
"Must these like empty shadows pass, / Or forms reflected from a glass? / Or mere chimeras in the mind, / That fly, and leave no marks behind?"
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: March 13, 1727
"And is not virtue in mankind / The nutriment that feeds the mind; / Upheld by each good action past, / And still continued by the last?"
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: w. 1707, published 1728-9
Dulness is "the safe Opiate of the Mind."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1728, 1729, 1736
"A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead;] i. e. A trifling head, and a contracted heart,as the poet, book 4. describes the accomplished Sons of Dulness; of whom this is only an Image, or Scarecrow, and so stuffed out with these corresponding materials."
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Date: 1728, 1729, 1736
"She form'd this image of well-bodied air, / With pert flat eyes she window'd well its head, / A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead, / And empty words she gave, and sounding strain, / But senseless, lifeless! idol void and vain!"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1733, 1736
"The ruling Passion conquers reason still."
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