Date: 1723
"The Cells, and little Lodgings, Thou canst see / In Mem'ry's Hoards and secret Treasury; / Dost the dark Cave of each Idea spy, / And see'st how rang'd the crouded Lodgers lye; / How some, when beckon'd by the Soul, awake, / While peaceful Rest their uncall'd Neighbours take."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: September 10, 1726
"To explain this, we must consider that the first Image which an outward Object imprints on our Brain is very slight; it resembles a thin Vapour which dwindles into nothing, without leaving the least track after it. But if the same Object successively offers itself several times, the Image it occ...
preview | full record— Arbuckle, James (d. 1742)
Date: September 10, 1726
"Yet we must not suppose that they are continually in their Retirement; they would become useless if they were so. But on the contrary, great Numbers of them are always going to and fro; and if one of them chances to go by the Cell or Lodge of another which has the least real or imaginary conform...
preview | full record— Arbuckle, James (d. 1742)
Date: 1729
"So shall not Death, with an unfriendly Frown, / Inglorious, throw thy ruin'd Cottage down"
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
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"
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1742
Judgement may assume "her Seat, the Mind"
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)