Date: 1715
"The Poet is in the right to say, that the Mind is a Part of Man: for it is, indeed, the informing, but not an assisting Part, as a Mariner in a Ship, and a Coachman in his Box, as the Academicks believ'd."
preview | full record— Lucretius Carus, Titus (94 B.C.- ca. 49 B.C.); Creech, Thomas (1659-1700)
Date: 1717
"Bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind, / The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1717
"But when we cease / To draw the Breath of Life, the Soul on wing / Fleets like a Dream, from Elemental Dross / Disparted, and refin'd."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: 1717
"Yet he no rustic clownishness profest, / Nor was soft love a stranger to his breast"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1717
"But Man would yet look wondrous wise. / And equal Chains of Thought devise."
preview | full record— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)
Date: 1722
"[E]rring conscience must as well controll /Our acts, as when it moves and guides the soul"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1722
"He, who the revelation owns, yet brings / The sacred truths and high mysterious things / Of Christian faith, which heav'nly light reveals, / To reason's bar, to a wrong court appeals."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1722
"For reason, reason's self being judge, by laws, / That rule her province, can't decide the cause."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1722
"The sole business of reason in this case is to examine and judge of the evidence that is brought to prove that any proposition about the nature of God is clearly revealed by himself."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1722
"[W]ho can tell / How each [image] awaken'd from its little cell / Starts forth, and how the soul's command it hears / And soon on fancy's theatre appears?"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)