Date: 1735, 1792
[Allegories of taste, smell, sound, and vision.]
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1735, 1792
" Thro' nature traffick on, from pole to pole, / And stamp new worlds on thy dilated soul"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1735, 1792
"'O why of these thy bounteous goods bereft, / 'And only to interior Reason left?"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1735, 1792
"Whence either pulmonary lobe expires, / And all the interior subtile breath retires; / Subsiding lungs[6] their labouring vessels press, / Affected mutual with severe distress, / While towards the left their confluent torrents gush, / And on the heart's sinister cavern rush;"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1736
"Upon the whole, then, our organs of sense and our limbs are certainly instruments which the living persons, ourselves, make use of to perceive and move with: there is not any probability that they are any more; nor consequently, that we have any other kind of relation to them, that what we may h...
preview | full record— Butler, Joseph (1692-1752)
Date: 1736
"Each keeps the other's Image in his Breast, / As Wax preserves the Form a Seal imprest."
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Date: 1736, 1743
"Hail, heav'n-born Piety! unknown / Where mad Ambition taints the Mind."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)
Date: 1736, 1743
"But Care no Desert can exclude, / We haunt ourselves in Solitude."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)
Date: 1736
"Philosophy was incapable of affording her any Relief, and all her Reason served only to paint the Unhappiness of her Condition in the stronger Colours."
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Date: 1736
"This Discourse, meant for a Comfort, was the severest Corrosive to the Heart of Eovaai."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)