Date: 1713
Wine may gild "the Thought with Chymick Art"
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Date: 1713
Wine may "into Riches" stamp and coin the Heart
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Date: 1713, 1734
"Look you, Hylas, when I speak of Objects, as existing in the Mind, or imprinted on the Senses; I wou'd not be understood in the gross, literal Sense, as when Bodies are said to exist in a place, or a Seal to make an Impression upon Wax."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: September 15, 1713
"These are generally persons who, in Shakespear's phrase, are worn and hackney'd in the Ways of Men; whose imaginations are grown Callous, and have lost all those delicate Sentiments which are natural to Minds that are innocent and undepraved."
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Date: 1713
"The Rafters sink, and bury'd with his Coin / That Fate does with his living Thoughts combine; / For still his Heart's inclos'd within a Golden Mine."
preview | full record— Finch [née], Anne, countess of Winchilsea (1666-1720)
Date: 1713
"One while to trace a theorem in mathematicks through a long labyrinth of intricate turns and subtilties of thought; another, to be conscious of the sublime ideas and comprehensive views of a philosopher, without any fatigue or wasting of my own spirits"
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Date: 1713
"Sometimes, to wander through perfumed groves, or enamelled meadows, in the fancy of a poet."
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Date: 1713
"At others [other times], to be present when a battel or a storm raged, or a glittering palace rose in his imagination"
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Date: 1713
To visit the Imagination one must "descend a story lower," out of the Understanding and "into the Imagination, which [one may find] larger, indeed, but cold and comfortless."
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Date: 1713
"Ah! Cruel Nymph! to whom is giv'n /A Form more bright, more proud than Heav'n; / Whose scornful Soul, and haughty Breast, / Disdain to make a God their Guest."
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