Date: 1718
"Black Guilt involves the World in horrid Night, / And clouds our Intellectual Sight."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: c. 1718 [published 1907]
"My mind like Telephus's hurt is found. */ The cause that gave can only Cure the wound."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1720
The eyes speak the mind's "the lover's mind"
preview | full record— Sansom, Martha [née Fowke] (1690-1736)
Date: 1720
"Your Guilt will stretch your Conscience on the Rack, / You'll be arraign'd, and punish'd for the Fact."
preview | full record— Pennecuik, Alexander (d. 1730)
Date: 1722
"No impious Itch of Empire fires our Mind, / Nor are our Hearts to those base Thoughts inclin'd."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Gilbertfield (c. 1665-1751)
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: 1723
"Does thy Soul sicken, while thy Body's sound?"
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
Date: 1725
A "longing mind" may be racked with cares brought before the eyes.
preview | full record— Glanvil, John (1664-1735)
Date: 1725-6
"[T]his last astonishes the Reader, and he is so intent upon it, that he has not attention to consider the absurdity in the manner of Ulysses's landing: In this moment when [Homer] perceives the mind of the Reader as it were intoxicated with these beauties, he steals Ulysses on shore, and dismiss...
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.
Date: 1725-6
"Each gentle mind the soft infection felt, for richest metals are most apt to melt"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.