Date: 1724, 1756
"Consult the native Dictates of thy Soul; / And if thou there discern the Maker's Hand, / Confess his Care, resign to his Command."
preview | full record— Tollet, Elizabeth (1694-1754)
Date: 1724, 1756
Wit is a "rebel Folly" that must be taught "That 'tis her noblest Conquest to submit"
preview | full record— Tollet, Elizabeth (1694-1754)
Date: 1724, 1755
"Such Verse where Fear and humble Passion speak, / Where crowding Thoughts in soft Confusion break"
preview | full record— Tollet, Elizabeth (1694-1754)
Date: 1724
"Thy fears are the wild coinage of thy fancy."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1724, 1787
"Sure thou wilt weep, and tender sorrows feel; / Nor flint thy heart, nor is thy breast of steel."
preview | full record— Welsted, Leonard (1688-1747)
Date: 1724
"The Soul resides eminently in the Brain, where all the Nervous Fibres terminate inwardly, like a Musician by a well-tuned Instrument, which has Keys within, on which it may play, and without, on which other Persons and Bodies may also play."
preview | full record— Cheyne, George (1671-1743)
Date: 1724
"One Law of the Action of the Soul on the Body, & vice versa, seems to be, That upon such and such Motions produced in the Musical Instrument of the Body, such and such Sensations should arise in the Mind; and on such and such Actions of the Soul, such and such Motions in the Body should ensue; m...
preview | full record— Cheyne, George (1671-1743)
Date: 1724
"As in Bodies there is a Principle of Gravity or Attraction, whereby in Vacuo, they tend to one another, and would unite, according to certain Laws and Limitations established by the Author of Nature: So there is an Analogous Principle in Spirits, whereby they would as certainly, in their proper ...
preview | full record— Cheyne, George (1671-1743)
Date: 1724
"The sudden Gusts of these Passions being thus accounted for, when they become extreme they drive about the Blood with such a Hurricane, that Nature is overset, like a Mill by a Flood: So that what drove it only quicker round before, now intirely stops it, and renders the Countenance pale and gha...
preview | full record— Cheyne, George (1671-1743)
Date: 1724
"Since the Mind resides, as has been said, in the common Sensory, like a skilful Musician. by a well-tuned Instrument; if the Organ be found, duly tempered, and exactly adjusted, answering and corresponding with the Actions of the Musician, the Musick will be distinct, agreeable and harmonious."
preview | full record— Cheyne, George (1671-1743)