Date: 1713, 1734
"But the ideas perceived by sense, that is, real things, are more vivid and clear, and being imprinted on the mind by a spirit distinct from us, have not a like dependence on our will."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1713, 1734
"We are chained to a body, that is to say, our perceptions are connected with corporeal motions."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1713, 1734
"You cannot say objects are in your mind, as books in your study: or that things are imprinted on it, as the figure of a seal upon wax."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1713, 1734
"I have been a long time distrusting my senses; methought I saw things by a dim light, and through false glasses."
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Date: 1713
"Through ev'ry Age some Tyrant Passion reigns"
preview | full record— Finch [née], Anne, countess of Winchilsea (1666-1720)
Date: 1713
"Through ev'ry Age some Tyrant Passion reigns: / Now Love prevails, and now Ambition gains / Reason's lost Throne, and sov'reign Rule maintains."
preview | full record— Finch [née], Anne, countess of Winchilsea (1666-1720)
Date: 1713
Cleopatra "justly cou'd a Nobler Empire boast / In Cæsar's Heart, than Ptolomy had lost"
preview | full record— Smith, John (fl. 1713)
Date: 1713
When music plays, "Intestine war no more our Passions wage, / And giddy Factions hear away their rage."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1713
"Now that within Nocturnal Shell / Pale Visionary Glimm'rings dwell, / By Demonstration I'll evince, / And Testimony of the Sense."
preview | full record— Smith, John (fl. 1713)
Date: 1713
"Affection can th' External Senses blind, / And stamps such deep Impressions on the Mind"
preview | full record— Smith, John (fl. 1713)