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: 1736, 1737, 1734-1741
"We must examine every thing, as if we were a tabula rasa."
preview | full record— Bayle, Pierre (1647-1706); Anonymous