Date: 1712
"When Objects thro' the Senses Passage gain, / And fill with various Imag'ry the Brain, / Th' Ideas, which the Mind does thence perceive,/ To Think and Know the first Occasion give."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1712
"Can the dissecting Steel the Brain display, / And the august Apartment open lay, / Where this great Queen still chuses to reside / In Intellectual Pomp, and bright Ideal Pride? / Or can the Eye assisted by the Glass / Discern the strait, but hospitable Place, / In which ten thousand Images remai...
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: Saturday, June 21, 1712
"[Sight] fills the Mind with the largest Variety of Ideas, converses with its Objects at the greatest Distance, and continues the longest in Action without being tired or satiated with its proper Enjoyments."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: Saturday, June 21, 1712
"For this Reason Sir Francis Bacon, in his Essay upon Health, has not thought it improper to prescribe to his Reader a Poem or a Prospect, where he particularly dissuades him from knotty and subtile Disquisitions, and advises him to pursue Studies that fill the Mind with splendid and illustrious ...
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1713
"My Memory is pretty well stocked with Terms of Art, and I can talk unintelligibly."
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
Date: 1713, 1734
"You cannot say objects are in your mind, as books in your study: or that things are imprinted on it, as the figure of a seal upon wax."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1713
"But oh! my Friends, your Safety fills my Heart / With anxious Thoughts: A thousand secret Terrors, / Rise in my Soul."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1713
"My Memory is pretty well stocked with Terms of Art, and I can talk unintelligibly."
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
Date: July 23, 1703; 1714
"Time, I daily find, blots out apace the little Stock of my Mind, and has disabled me from furnishing all that I would willingly contribute to the Memory of that Learned Man.."
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1705, 1714, 1732
"This has often made me compare the Virtues of great Men to your large China Jars: they make a fine Shew, and are Ornamental even to a Chimney; one would by the Bulk they appear in, and the Value that is set upon 'em, think they might be very useful, but look into a thousand of them, and you'll f...
preview | full record— Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733)