Date: 1675
"Who th' Image yet unborn did entertain, / And hous'd the Theater within his Brain."
preview | full record— Leigh, Richard (1649/50-1728)
Date: 1675
"The Intellectual Theater appear'd, / As in the Fancy by a Builder rear'd."
preview | full record— Leigh, Richard (1649/50-1728)
Date: 1675
"Many such Theaters lodge in that Breast, / Where this at largest, a small space possest."
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Date: 1689
"For such a Gift, as t'have that Gemam possest, / Not of your Cabinet, but of your Breast."
preview | full record— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)
Date: 1735
"Hope may some boundless Future Bliss embrace, / But What, or When, or How, or Where, / Are Mazes all, which Fancy runs in vain"
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1735
"Nor can the narrow Cells of human Brain / The vast immeasurable Thought contain"
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Date: 1736
"In her own Breast she seeks a calm Repose, / And shuns the crowded Rooms of Belles and Beaux"
preview | full record— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)
Date: 1785
When Reason dwells in the heart it is "Wisdom's cell"
preview | full record— Lovibond, Edward (bap. 1723, d. 1775)