Date: w. 1682, 1702
Chastity may "tincture Humane Hearts with holy Awe, / And deeply there engrave the Royal Law"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
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: 1723
"Having thus cleaned and polish'd the Soul, it becomes a pure Tabula Rasa, fit for the best or worst Impressions."
preview | full record— Marana, Giovanni Paolo (1642-1693); Anonymous [William Bradshaw (fl. 1700) or Robert Midgley (1655?-1723)?]
Date: 1729
"The Brain of a Child, newly born, is Charte Blanche; and, as you have hinted very justly, we have no Ideas, which we are not obliged for to our Senses."
preview | full record— Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733)
Date: 1729
"But as the first Images are lost, so they are continually succeeded by new ones; and the Brain at first serves as a Slate to Cypher, or a Sampler to work upon."
preview | full record— Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733)
Date: 1738, 1739
"The Mind, a Blank, when Life begins to flow, / But without Knowledge capable to know, / The God of Nature to our Care commits; / As to the Press we send th' unsully'd Sheets."
preview | full record— Bancks, John (1709-1751)
Date: 1738, 1739
"And as with Milton's Numbers, or with mine, / Those Sheets come forth, as Corbet may enjoin; / So Education on the Mind imprints / Sublime Ideas, or low trivial Hints."
preview | full record— Bancks, John (1709-1751)
Date: 1744
"[T]he charming image of a city's brightest ornament" may be engraven on the heart by "the god of love ... in characters too indelible ever to be erased"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1744
"Burn this paper, I conjure you, the moment you have read it; but lay the contents of it up in your heart never to be forgotten."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1782
"Oh! lads, beware the month of May;--for you blest girls--nature decked out--as in a birth-day suit--courts you with all its sweets--where-e'er you tread--the grass and wanton flowerets fondly kiss your feet--and humbly bow their pretty heads--to the gentle sweepings of your under-petticoats--the...
preview | full record— Sancho, Charles Ignatius (1729-1780)