Date: 1698
"No body can be pleas'd without Sensible Impressions. Nor can such Perceptions be received without a Train of Passions attending them."
preview | full record— Collier, Jeremy (1650-1726)
Date: 1698
"Love has generally a Party Within; And when the Wax is prepared, the Impression is easily made."
preview | full record— Collier, Jeremy (1650-1726)
Date: 1698
"When the Impression is made by the Object, and receiv'd into the Organ of Sense, it is convey'd from thence with the same Type or Character, by an Agitation of its Nervous Expansions and their continued Trunks, to the common Sensory."
preview | full record— Cowper [Cooper], William (1666/7-1710)
Date: 1700
"What can be the Object of Love but amiable Qualities, the Image of the Deity impress'd upon a generous and god-like Mind, a Mind that is above this World, to be sure above all the Vices, the Tricks and Baseness of it; a Mind that is not full of it self, nor contracted to little private Interests...
preview | full record— Astell, Mary (1666–1731)