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Date: 1730
"No light the darkness of that mind invades, / Where Chaos rules, enshrin'd in genuine Shades; / Where, in the Dungeon of the Soul inclos'd,/ True Dulness nods, reclining and repos'd.
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: 1730
A "mimic gleam of transient light" may break through the gloom of dullness "and then they think they write"
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: 1742 [see first edition, 1733]
"The Mind, like a Tabula rasa, easyly receives the first Impression; and, like that, when the first Impression is deeply made, it with Difficulty admits of an Erasement of the first Characters, which in some Minds are indelible"
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
