Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"As solid Shores contain the liquid Seas, / Just so the Stomach, a soft watry Mass, / Stagnates beneath and fills the lower Space: / Here, Winds, and Rains, and humid Vapours lie, / And these exhal'd with Heat, all upwards fly: / As mantling Clouds conceal the fickly Sun, / Dissolve in Dew and dr...
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"Black Night comes on, and interrupts the Day, / E'er it can chase the Mists and Fogs away; / The Dregs of Flesh and Drossy Lees, o'errun / The Soul, and weigh the strugling Spirit down:"
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1713
"At others [other times], to be present when a battel or a storm raged, or a glittering palace rose in his imagination"
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1713
"[I]mpetuous Passions" may "toss the Soul, /And Tides of boiling Blood reluctant roll."
preview | full record— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)
Date: 1714
"Storms of neighbouring Atoms tear the Soul"
preview | full record— Evans, Abel (1679-1737)
Date: 1715
"As unregarded thro' the Vaulted Skies, / The Wat'ry South in Noisy Tempest flies: / Just so the vain Expressions touch our Mind, / Nor any strong Impressions leave behind."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1719-1720, 1725
"'Twould swell this Discourse beyond what I design, to recount her various Starts of Passions, and different Turns of Behaviour, sometimes louder than the Winds, she rav'd! Commanded! Threatned! Then, still as April Showers, or Summer Dews, she wept, and only whisper'd her Complaints, now dissemb...
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1719-1720, 1725
"In this Tempest of Mind, she continu'd for some time, till at length Rage beginning to dissipate itself in Tears, made way for cooler Considerations; and her natural Vanity resuming its Empire in her Soul, was of no little Service to her on this Occasion."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1719-1720, 1725
"She threw herself down into an Elbow-Chair that stood there, and gave a Loose to the Tempest of her Soul."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1722
"[O]r that hence, as swiftly those imperceptible Messengers called animal Spirits, should, at the Nutus Animae, rush through their Meandrous Paths like Lightning, and having dispatched the Mandates of the Will, as speedily bring back their Errand to the common Sensory."
preview | full record— Turner, Daniel (1667-1741)