Date: September 10, 1726
"Two Images meet, and unite to each other; these two meeting with a third, it unites to them in the same manner: and this Meeting and Union continuing for some time, at last occasions a most monstrous Aggregation, very like the Chaos of the Poet, where 'Frigida cum calidis pugnant, humentia sicci...
preview | full record— Arbuckle, James (d. 1742)
Date: September 10, 1726
"These united Images do sometimes separate from each other with the same facility they had joined, just like the fashionable way of marrying among the Quality; at other times, they maintain themselves in their Union, like poor Folks, without ever getting asunder; especially when this Union is the...
preview | full record— Arbuckle, James (d. 1742)
Date: September 10, 1726
"In this last Case one Image of this sort never appears without its whole Retinue; and if a straggling one, in its progress thro' the Brain, chances to strike any of this Chain, all the others will appear, and chime to the last link. These sorts of Chains are what we call Habits; the Temper and P...
preview | full record— Arbuckle, James (d. 1742)
Date: September 17, 1726
"This Train of Images continually revolv'd in our young Parson's Brain; and to preserve them from being jostled out by any intruding Foreigners, who might dispossess the Original Orthodox Inhabitants, the first Link of the Chain was rivetted by Pride, and the two last closed up by those two insep...
preview | full record— Arbuckle, James (d. 1742)
Date: 1726
"Their proper country, says Philander, is the breast of a good man: for I think they are most of them the figures of Virtues."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1704-5; 1731
"For, what does the Ambitious Prince or the Licentious Multitude; what does the Covetous, and Revengeful, or the Debauched Sinner; but only chuse to be a Servant to Passion, instead of a Follower of Right Reason?"
preview | full record— Clarke, Samuel (1675-1729)
Date: 1732
The fancy may own its errors and humbly bow to Reason
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1732
"Malice, and Lust, voracious Birds of Prey, / That out-soar Reason, and our Wishes sway; / Desires' wild Seas, on which the wise are tost, / By Pilot Indolence, are safely crost."
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1733
The "fond Breast" may be populated by "jealous Demons"
preview | full record— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)