Date: 1737
"Souls for ever live: / But often their old Habitations leave, / To dwell in new; which them, as Guests, receive."
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)
Date: 1737
"Confounded with the Crowd of various Thoughts, / And stiff'ning with Amaze, the Hero stood, / In Silence deep."
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)
Date: 1737
"Vain Wretch! Ambition fires his Breast, / Impetuous, dire, tormenting Guest!"
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)
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: 1727, 1739
"My Heart, no Stranger to the Guest [Love], / Flutter'd, and labour'd in my Breast"
preview | full record— Broome, William (1689-1745); Hesiod
Date: 1744
"The Preservation of Life, the defending the human Body from Decay, and of rendering it a fit Tenement for the Soul to inhabit, in that Season in which she is most capable of exerting her noblest Faculties, are grave and ferious Subjects; with which no trivial Matters ought to mingle."
preview | full record— Campbell, John (1708-75)
Date: September 27, 1746
"A jealous daemon whispers in my breast."
preview | full record— Hervey, John, second Baron Hervey of Ickworth (1696-1743)
Date: 1758
"In every Feast remember, that there are two Guests to be entertained, the Body, and the Soul: and that what you give the Body, you presently lose; but what you give the Soul, remains for ever."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)