Date: 1680
"Those worthy deeds which he hath wrought / VVithin each breast, have left behind / Impressions, time can never blot"
preview | full record— Chamberlayne, Sir James (c.1640-1699)
Date: 1684
"You wish'd those Thoughts in bloody Ink were shrouded"
preview | full record— Harington, John (1627-1700)
Date: 1693
"Needless was written law, where none opprest; / The law of man was written in his breast."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1705
"In Characters of Malice, Pride, and Fraud, / Stamp'd on his Mind, my Image I applaud."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1705
" In Characters of Malice, Pride, and Fraud, / Stamp'd on his Mind, my Image I applaud."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
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: 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)
Date: 1733
"My head and heart thus flowing thro' my quill, / Verse-man or Prose-man, term me which you will."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1737
"'Cou'd your Eyes penetrate my naked Breast, / 'There you might read these Characters engrav'd, / 'That, by your Virtues I am bound! inslav'd!"
preview | full record— Ogle, George (1704-1746)