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Date: 1725-6
"This is spoken with too great severity: it is necessary to relieve the mind of the reader sometimes with gayer scenes, that it may proceed with a fresh appetite to the succeeding entertainment."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.
Date: 1725-6
"The moral then of these fables of Alcinous is, that a constant series of happiness intoxicates the mind, and that moderation is often learn'd in the school of adversity."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.
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
"Discourse [is] the sweeter banquet of the mind."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.
Date: 1726
"O! teach me what is Good! teach me thy self! / Save me from Folly, Vanity and Vice, / From every low Pursuit! and feed my Soul, / With Knowledge, conscious Peace, and Vertue pure, / Sacred, substantial, never-fading Bliss!"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
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: 1733
"There St. John mingles with my friendly Bowl, / The Feast of Reason and the Flow of Soul."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1735-6
"See! the full board / That steams disgust, and bowls that give no joy; / No truth invited there, to feed the mind; / Nor wit, the wine-rejoicing reason quaffs."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1743
"Our needful knowledge, like our needful food, / Unhedged, lies open in life's common field, / And bids all welcome to the vital feast."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"Life animal is nurtured by the sun; / Thrives on his bounties, triumphs in his beams. / Life rational subsists on higher food, / Triumphant in His beams who made the day."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
