Date: June 1, 1732
"Ha! Distraction wild / Begins to wanton in my unhing'd Brain: / Methinks I'm mad, mad as a wild March Hare; / My muddy Brain is addled like an Egg, / My Teeth, like Magpies, chatter in my Head; / My reeling Head! which akes like any mad."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: November, 1732
"Vulcan's Man ought to have had a Window in his Breast, to see what pass'd within."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 1731-1732, 1777
"Your poet shall allot your Lord his part, / And paint him in his noblest throne--your heart."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1732
"Heav'ns! what Ideas fill'd each mighty Mind! / Their Works appear'd the Mirrour of Mankind!"
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1732
"High o'er the verseful Throng, you stand, alone, / Asserting boundless Fancy's rightful Throne"
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1732
"Neither birth, nor books, nor conversation, can introduce a knowledge of the world into a conceited mind, which will ever be its own object, and contemplate mankind in its own mirror!"
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1732
"You must know, said he, that the mind of man may be fitly compared to a piece of land. What stubbing, ploughing, digging, and harrowing is to the one, that thinking, reflecting, examining is to the other."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1732
"Each hath its proper culture; and as land that is suffered to lie waste and wild for a long tract of time will be overspread with brushwood, brambles, thorns, and such vegetables which have neither use nor beauty; even so there will not fail to sprout up in a neglected, uncultivated mind, a grea...
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1732
"Represent to yourself the man of mind, or human nature in general, that for so many ages had lain obnoxious to the frauds of designing, and the follies of weak men; how it must be overrun with prejudices and errors, what firm and deep roots they must have taken, and consequently how difficult a ...
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1732
"What! upon every subject? upon the notions you first sucked in with your milk, and which have been ever since nursed by parents, pastors, tutors, religious assemblies, books of devotion, and such methods of prepossessing men's minds."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)