Date: 1830
"'A lovely form there sate beside my bed [...]Twas my own spirit newly come from heaven, / Wooing its gentle way into my soul!"
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1871
"[T]he mynd of man first of hyt selfe ys a clene and pure tabul where ys no thyng payntyd or carvyd, but of hyt selfe apt & indyfferent to receyve al maner of pycturys, and image."
preview | full record— Starkey, Thomas (c. 1495-1538)