Date: 1724, 1755
Wit may be refined by reason to disengage metal from the mine [of the mind]
preview | full record— Tollet, Elizabeth (1694-1754)
Date: 1724
"For Nature by fix'd Laws has wisely join'd / The bright Ideas of the conscious Mind / To Motions of the liquid spirit'ous Train, / Thro' previous Traces of the humid Brain; / These, when the Soul by drowsy Sleep oppress'd / Into her private Cell retires to Rest, / Thro' beaten Paths their wand'r...
preview | full record— Needler, Henry (1690-1718); Duncombe, William (1690-1769)
Date: 1725
A "longing mind" may be racked with cares brought before the eyes.
preview | full record— Glanvil, John (1664-1735)
Date: 1725
"Obedient let my Passions be / To all the Rules of strict Morality."
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)
Date: 1725
"I wou'd have all those soft-hearted Ladies that are impress'd like Wax, read Quevedo's 'Vision of Loving-Fools.'"
preview | full record— Davys, Mary (1674-1732)
Date: 1725
"Nor longer then she has the Heart to strive; / Yielding to all th' Impressions of his Flame"
preview | full record— Glanvil, John (1664-1735)
Date: 1725
"Thus a Tempest at Sea is often an Emblem of Wrath"
preview | full record— Hutcheson, Francis (1694-1746)
Date: 1725
"Love's an heroick Passion, which can find No room in any base degen'rate Mind: It kindles all the Soul with Honour's Fire, To make the Lover worthy his Desire."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1725
"In Pieces took here we are shewn the whole / Clock-work and Mechanism of the Soul; / May see the Movements, Labyrinths, and Strings, / Its Wires, and Wheels, and Balances, and Springs; / How 'tis wound up to its full Height, and then / What checks, and stops, and settles it again."
preview | full record— Glanvil, John (1664-1735)