Date: 1595 [c. 1579 in ms.]
The poet is "a passionate lover of that unspeakable and everlasting bewtie to be seene by the eyes of the mind"
preview | full record— Sidney, Philip, Sir (1554-1586)
Date: 1692
"He has clearly overthrown all those Metaphysical Whymsies, which infected mens Brains with a Spice of Madness, whereby they feign'd a Knowledge where they had none, by making a noise with Sounds, without clear and distinct Significations."
preview | full record— Molyneux, William (1656-1698)
Date: 1692
"[T]he Explanation whereof is allowed by all men as satisfactory, 'tis this, in Tab. 41. Fig. 2. the Image a b of the Object A B is painted on the Retina inverted, and yet the Eye (or rather the Soul by means of the Eye) sees the Object erect and in its natural Posture."
preview | full record— Molyneux, William (1656-1698)
Date: 1704
"For he tells us in the beginning of the Treatise that the Sublime does not so properly persuade us, as it Ravishes and Transports us, and produces in us a certain Admiration mingled with astonishment and with surprise, which is quite another thing than the barely Pleasing or the barely perswadin...
preview | full record— Dennis, John (1658-1734)