Date: 1752
A puppet may be "compell'd by secret Springs" just as an engine "moves with Motions not its own"
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]
Date: 1757-9
"He gapes to catch the Droppings of my Lord; / And tickled to the Soul at every Joke, / Like a press'd Watch repeats what t'other spoke: / Echo to Nonsense! such a Scene to hear!"
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]
Date: 1761, 1790
"Whence can this very motion take its birth? / Not sure from matter, from dull clods of earth; / But from a living spirit lodg'd within, / Which governs all the bodily machine"
preview | full record— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787); Browne, Isaac Hawkins (1706-1760)