Date: 1754
"My dear Dr. Bartlett, said he, your soul is harmony: I doubt not but all these are in order"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1755
"Think not these Tears unnerve me, valiant Friends: / They have but harmoniz'd my Soul; and waked / All that is Man within me, to disdain / Peril, or Death."
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1763 (repr. 1776); 1794 (repr. 1799)
"The power which the mind evidently has of moving the various parts of the body by nerves inserted in the muscles is truly wonderful, seeing the mind neither knows the muscles to be moved, nor the machinery, by which the motion in it is to be produced: so that it is as if a musician should always...
preview | full record— Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751)
Date: 1775
"[T]here may be a farther difference in the constitution of the nerves belonging to the different senses, or there may be so many circumstances that affect or modify their vibrations, that they may be as distinguishable from one another, as different human voices sounding the same note; and proba...
preview | full record— Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804)
Date: 1776
"If you really then think that, every process, termed mental, in man, is in fact nothing more than so many distinct nervous vibrations, then I readily grant that matter may think, for undoubtedly every stretched cord, when touched, will vibrate; and I will farther grant, that a fiddle, in that se...
preview | full record— Berington, Joseph (1743-1827)
Date: 1777, 1810
"When thus, by prospect, and by thought, / My mind to harmony is wrought; / Already conscious of the rising strain, / The path to Knighton I regain."
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1780, 1781, 1788
"Thy simple diction, free from glaring art, / With sweet allurement steals upon the heart, / Pure, as the rill, that Nature's hand refines; / Clear, as thy harmony of soul, it shines."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1784
"Thy piercing thought / Unaided saw each movement of the mind, / As skilful artists view the small machine, / The secret springs and nice dependencies, / And to thy mimic scenes, by fancy wrought / To such a wond'rous shape, th'impassion'd breast / In floods of grief, or peals of laughter bow'd, ...
preview | full record— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)
Date: 1785
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: "as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1785
"Who then that has a mind well strung and tuned / To contemplation, and within his reach / A scene so friendly to his favourite task, / Would waste attention at the chequer'd board, / His host of wooden warriors to and fro / Marching and counter-marching, with an eye / As fixt as marble, with a f...
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)