Date: November 10, 1730
"Virtue, Love, and Grief, so amply fill her Mind, there is no Room for any ruder Guest"
preview | full record— Lillo, George (1691/3-1739)
Date: November 10, 1730
"Since Truth to the Mind her own Likeness reflects, / Let none the just Mirror despise."
preview | full record— Lillo, George (1691/3-1739)
Date: June 22, 1731
"What Pity it is, a Mind so comprehensive, daring and inquisitive, shou'd be a Stranger to Religion's sweet, but powerful Charms."
preview | full record— Lillo, George (1691/3-1739)
Date: 1731
"That the Intelligent Principle, or Soul, resides in the brain, where all the Nerves, or Instruments of Sensation, terminate, like a Musician in a finely fram'd and well-tun'd Organ Case; that these Nerves are like Keys, which, being struck on or touch'd, convey the Sound and Harmon...
preview | full record— Cheyne, George (1671-1743)
Date: 1731-2
"It is a kind of annihilation to have our minds made a tabula rasa, and to date our existence from a new period."
preview | full record— Jortin, John (1698-1770)
Date: 1731, 1753
"Shines there a captain, form'd, for war's controul, / Born, with the seeds of conquest, in his soul?"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1731, 1753
"I feel her now--th' invader fires my breast; / And my soul swells, to suit the heavenly guest."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1731
"I've try'd all Arts my Passion to controul, / And still the giddy Tumult of my Soul; / But all in vain, no Charm has Strength to bind, / In lasting Chains, my wild disorder'd Mind."
preview | full record— Thompson, Isaac (1703-1776)
Date: November 10, 1730
"The pleasing Pain, / The gentle Chain, / That constant Hearts unite, / Such Joy bestows, / That Freedom knows / No such sincere Delight."
preview | full record— Lillo, George (1691/3-1739)
Date: 1731
"Feeling is nothing but the Impulse, Motion, or Action of Bodies, gently or violently impressing the Extremities or Sides of the Nerves, of the Skin of other parts of the Body, which by their Structure and Mechanism, convey this Motion to the Sentient Principle in the Brain, or the Musician."
preview | full record— Cheyne, George (1671-1743)