Date: 1708
"'The Characters that Nature has impress'd, / 'Keep their primæval Stamp on ev'ry Breast"
preview | full record— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730); Aesop
Date: 1708
"'And he that wou'd, what's printed there, erase, / 'As well might hope to blanch a Negro's Face."
preview | full record— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730); Aesop
Date: w. c. 1709, 1711
"As on the land while here the Ocean gains, / In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains; / Thus in the soul while memory prevails, / The solid pow'r of understanding fails; / Where beams of warm imagination play, / The memory's soft figures melt away."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1712, 1796
"He special care would of his safety take, / Both for his own, and for his father's sake, / Whose well-deservings of him, he should find, / Were deeply graven in a grateful mind."
preview | full record— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)
Date: 1712
"The ready Phantomes at her Nod advance, / And form the busie Intellectual Dance: / While her fair Scenes to vary, or supply, / She singles out fit Images, that lye / In Memory's Records, which faithful hold / Objects immense in secret Marks inroll'd, / The sleeping Forms at her Command awake, / ...
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1714
"[F]oul Reproches ignominious Stain, / Sate deep engraven in his fearfull Heart,"
preview | full record— Croxall, Samuel (1688/9-1752); Nestor Ironside
Date: 1714
"What iron Breast so hard that can endure / To work such Spight on Vertuous Innocence?"
preview | full record— Croxall, Samuel (1688/9-1752); Nestor Ironside
Date: 1714
The Soul returns "Naked from off this Beach and perfect Blank, / To visit the New World."
preview | full record— Evans, Abel (1679-1737)
Date: 1715
"And here we must conceive the Mind as the chief Part of Man, a judging Substance, but free from all Anticipations and Ideas; a plain Rasa Tabula, but fit for any impressions from external Objects, and capable to make Deductions from them"
preview | full record— Lucretius Carus, Titus (94 B.C.- ca. 49 B.C.); Creech, Thomas (1659-1700)
Date: 1715
"But because this Notion of a Rasa Tabula will not agree with those, who are fond of some, I know not what, innate, speculative, and practical ideas; it will be necessary to consider the Instances they produce"
preview | full record— Lucretius Carus, Titus (94 B.C.- ca. 49 B.C.); Creech, Thomas (1659-1700)