Date: 1871
"[T]he mynd of man first of hyt selfe ys a clene and pure tabul where ys no thyng payntyd or carvyd, but of hyt selfe apt & indyfferent to receyve al maner of pycturys, and image."
preview | full record— Starkey, Thomas (c. 1495-1538)
Date: 1929
"Such fullness in that quarter overflows / And falls into the basin of the mind / That man is stricken deaf and dumb and blind, / For intellect no longer knows / Is from the Ought, or Knower from the Known."
preview | full record— Yeats, W. B. (1865-1939)