Date: 1744, 1746
"That with the vivid energy of sense, / The truth of Nature, which with Attic point / And kind well temper'd satire, smoothly keen, / Steals through the soul, and without pain corrects."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1754
"The mind would be little more than a channel through which ideas and notions glided from entity into nonentity."
preview | full record— St John, Henry, styled first Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751)