Date: 1737
"Vain Wretch! Ambition fires his Breast, / Impetuous, dire, tormenting Guest!"
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)
Date: 1737
"Such black designs are strangers to our breast."
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1737
"My Mind resumes the thread it dropt before; / Thoughts, which at Hyde-Park-Corner I forgot, / Meet and rejoin me, in my pensive Grott. "
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1739
The mind's "elect interpreter" is "the Tongue"
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)
Date: 1739
The [soul?] may be taught by the brain instead of the breast
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)
Date: October, 1739
"Bid Fancy quit her fairy cell, / In all her colours drest / While prompt her sallies to control, / Reason, the judge, recalls the soul / To Truth's severest test."
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1741
"Says Body to Mind, ''Tis amazing to see, / We're so nearly related yet never agree, / But lead a most wrangling strange sort of life, / As great plagues to each other as husband and wife.'"
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1741
"The best room in my house you [the mind] have seized for your own, / And turned the whole tenement quite upside down, / While you hourly call in a disorderly crew / Of vagabond rogues, who have nothing to do / But to run in and out, hurry-scurry, and keep / Such a horrible uproar, I can't get to...
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1741
"There's my kitchen sometimes is as empty as sound, / I call for my servants, not one's to be found: / They are all sent out on your ladyship's errand, / To fetch some more riotous guests in, I warrant!"
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1741
"I [the mind] did but step out, on some weighty affairs, / To visit last night, my good friends in the stars, / When, before I was got half as high as the moon, / You despatched Pain and Languor to hurry me down; / Vi & Armis they seized me, in midst of my flight, / And shut me in caverns as dark...
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)