Date: 1713
"Behold him now contemplating that Head, / From which long-since both Flesh, and Brains are fled; / Questioning, if that empty, hollow Bowl / Did not ere while contain the Human Soul."
preview | full record— Finch [née], Anne, Countess of Winchilsea (1666-1720)
Date: 1713
"But silent Musings urge the Mind to seek / Something, too high for Syllables to speak; / Till the free Soul to a compos'dness charm'd, / Finding the Elements of Rage disarm'd, / O'er all below a solemn Quiet grown, / Joys in th'inferiour World, and thinks it like her Own."
preview | full record— Finch [née], Anne, Countess of Winchilsea (1666-1720)
Date: 1713
"These purer thoughts, from gross alloys refined, / With heavenly raptures elevate the mind."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1713
Thus o'er the dying Lamp th'unsteady Flame / Hang's quiv'ring on a Point, leap's off by Fits, / And fall's again, as loath to quit its Hold / --Thou must not go, my Soul still hover's o'er thee / And can't get loose."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1713, 1734
"And although it may, perhaps, seem an uneasy reflexion to some, that when they have taken a circuit through so many refined and unvulgar notions, they should at last come to think like other men: yet, methinks, this return to the simple dictates of Nature, after having wandered through the wild ...
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1713
"Your soul (continued he) being at liberty to transport herself with a thought wherever she pleases, may enter into the Pineal Gland of the most learned philosopher, and, being so placed, become spectator of all the ideas in his mind, which would instruct her in a much less time than the usual me...
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1713
"On the 11th day of October, in the year 1712, having left my body locked up safe in my study, I repaired to the Grecian coffee-house, where, entring into the pineal gland of a certain eminent Free-thinker, I made directly to the highest part of it, which is the seat of the Understanding, expecti...
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1713, 1734
"It seems then, you will have our ideas, which alone are immediately perceived, to be pictures of external things."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1713, 1734
"It is supposed the soul makes her residence in some part of the brain, from which the nerves take their rise, and are thence extended to all parts of the body."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)