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Weather::Wind

"Her tuneful tongue with eloquence and ease, / The golden merchandize of thought conveys; / Brisk fancy wafts it with her sprightly gales, / While judgment ballasts all the swelling sails."

Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

To the Right Honourable Lord Lyttleton. An Epistle [from Poems on Several Occasions]

1766

Only 1 entry in ESTC (1766).<br> <br> <u>Poems on Several Occasions. By James Woodhouse, Journeyman Shoemaker</u>, 2nd edition (London: Printed for the author, and sold by Dodsley, 1766). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T132323">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CW115146826&source=gale&userGroupName=viva_uva&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000779121">Link to Hathi Trust</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=PL9IAAAAMAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br> <br> Note, some poems in this edition first collected in 1764 in <u>Poems on Sundry Occasions</u>. Note, also, the collection published in 1788 with title <u>Poems on Several Occasions</u> does not contain the same poems. Cf. ESTC and Brit. Mus. Catalogue.<br> <br> Text from <u>The Life and Poetical Works of James Woodhouse</u>, ed. R. I. Woodhouse, 2 vols. (London: The Leadenhall Press, 1896). &lt;<a href="http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008956650">Link to Hathi Trust</a>&gt; &lt;<a href="http://uclibs.org/PID/78065">Link to LION</a>&gt;<br>

Weather::Wind

The soul may be tossed in a whirlwind

Savage, Mary (fl. 1763-1777)

Letter to Miss E.B. on Marriage

1777

Lonsdale, R. Ed. <u>Eighteenth Century Women Poets</u>. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Weather::Wind

Complacency may breath a gentle gail over the thoughts and swell an "easy sail"

Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Truth [from Poems]

1782

At least entries in ECCO and ESTC (1782, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1790, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1797, 1798, 1800, 1799, 1800).<br> <br> See <u>Poems by William Cowper</u> (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1782). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T14895">Link to ESTC</a>&gt; &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004792651.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br> <br> Text from <u>The Works of William Cowper</u> (London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1835-1837).<br> <br> Reading <u>The Poems of William Cowper</u>, 3 vols. ed. John D. Baird and Charles Ryskamp (Oxford: Oxford UP: 1980), I, pp. 280-296.

Weather::Wind

"Ere Gold appear'd the Passions took their course; / Like whirldwinds swept the flowers of life along, / And crush'd the weak, and undermin'd the strong."

Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)

Sympathy. A Poem. [from Miscellanies]

1785

Samuel Jackson Pratt, <u>Miscellanies, By Mr. Pratt</u>, 4 vols. (London: printed for T. Becket, 1785). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CW125287655&source=gale&userGroupName=viva_uva&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;

Weather::Wind

"The whirlwind wakes of uncontrouled desire"

Barbauld, Anna Letitia [n&eacute;e Aikin] (1743-1825)

Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq. on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade

1791

McCarthy, William and Kraft, Elizabeth, eds. <u>Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose</u>. Ontario: Broadview Press, 2002.

Weather::Wind

"The passions also, the winds of life, would be useless, if not injurious, did the substance which composes our thinking being, after we have thought in vain, only become the support of vegetable life, and invigorate a cabbage, or blush in a rose."

Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

1792

7 entries in ESTC (1792, 1793, 1794, 1796).<br> <br> See <u>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. by Mary Wollstonecraft.</u> (London: Printed for J. Johnson, No 72, St. Paul's Church Yard, 1792). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004903441.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br> <br> Reading Wollstonecraft, M. <u>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman</u>, Modern Library (New York: Random House, 2001). Also <u>The Vindications</u>, eds. D. L. Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf (Toronto: Broadview Press, 2001). <br> <br> See also Mary Wollstonecraft, <u>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects</u> (London: J. Johnson, 1792). &lt;<a href="http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/126">Link to OLL</a>&gt;

Weather::Wind

"The Thoughts will be rising of themselves from time to time, tho' we give them no Encouragement; as the Tossings and Fluctuations of the Sea continue several Hours after the Winds are laid."

Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)

Spectator, No. 63

1711

See Donald Bond's edition: <u>The Spectator</u>, 5 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965).<br> <br> Reading in Addison and Steele, <u>Selections from the Tatler and the Spectator</u>. Ed. Robert J. Allen. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1970.

Weather::Wind

"The strange and absurd Variety that is so apparent in Men's Actions, shews plainly they can never proceed immediately from Reason; so pure a Fountain emits no such troubled Waters: They must necessarily arise from the Passions, which are to the Mind as the Winds to a Ship, they only can move it, and they too often destroy it."

Anonymous

Spectator, No. 408

1712

At least 80 entries in ESTC (1711, 1712, 1713, 1714, 1715, 1716, 1717, 1718, 1720, 1721, 1723, 1724, 1726, 1729, 1733, 1734, 1735, 1737, 1738, 1744, 1745, 1747, 1748, 1749, 1750, 1753, 1754, 1755, 1756, 1756, 1757, 1761, 1763, 1765, 1766, 1767, 1769, 1771, 1776, 1778, 1785, 1788, 1789, 1781, 1793, 1797, 1799, 1800).<br> <br> By Steele, Addison, Budgell and others, <u>The Spectator</u> (London: Printed for Sam. Buckley, at the Dolphin in Little Britain; and sold by A[nn]. Baldwin in Warwick-Lane, 1711-1714). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/P1724">Link to ESTC</a>&gt; -- No. 1 (Thursday, March 1. 1711) through No. 555 (Saturday, December 6. 1712); 2nd series, No. 556 (Friday, June 18. 1714), ceased with No. 635 (20 Dec. 1714).<br> <br> Some text from <u>The Spectator</u>, 3 vols. Ed. Henry Morley (London: George Routledge, 1891). &lt;<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12030/12030-h/12030-h/12030-h.htm">Link to PGDP edition</a>&gt;<br><br> Reading in Donald Bond's edition: <u>The Spectator</u>, 5 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965).

Weather::Wind

"Here nymphs from hollow oaks relate / The dark decrees and will of fate, / And dreams beneath the spreading beach / Inspire, and docile fancy teach; / While, soft as breezy breath of wind, / Impulses rustle thro' the mind."

Green, Matthew (1696-1737)

The Spleen. An Epistle Inscribed to his particular Friend Mr. C. J.

1737

7 copies in ECCO. Earliest printings from 1737 and 1738. I find two "second" editions: from 1738 and 1754 and a Dublin edition from 1743.<br> <br> Text from C-H/HDIS transcription of Matthew Green, <u>The Spleen. An Epistle Inscribed to his particular Friend Mr. C. J.</u>, 2nd edition (London: Printed for A. Dodd, 1754). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW111505037&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T69629">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br> <br> See also the first edition (London: A Dodd, 1737) in ECCO &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3307786912&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link</a>&gt; or third edition, corrected (London: A. Dodd, 1738) in Google Books &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=h1AJAAAAQAAJ">Link</a>&gt;

Weather::Wind

"The internal principles and motives may operate in a uniform manner, notwithstanding these seeming irregularities; in the same manner as the winds, rain, cloud, and other variations of the weather are supposed to be governed by steady principles; though not easily discoverable by human sagacity and enquiry."

Hume, David (1711-1776)

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

1748

Working from Nidditch's census, and also confirming entries in the ESTC (1748, 1750, 1751, 1756, 1758, 1760, 1764, 1767, 1768, 1770, 1772, 1777).<br> <br> First published as <u>Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding</u> (London: Printed for A Millar, 1748). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW119914515&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004806472.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=LB4VAAAAQAAJ&">Link to 1748 edition in Google Books</a>&gt; "Second edition" in 1750, "third edition" in 1756. First titled <u>An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding</u> in 1758.<br> <br> In ECCO-TCP, see also <u>Essays and Treatises: on Several Subjects. By David Hume, Esq</u>, 4 vols. (London: Printed for A. Millar; and A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, at Edinburgh, 1760). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004802356.0001.003">Link to vol. III</a>&gt;<br> <br> Text from David Hume, <u>Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals</u>. 3rd edition. Ed. L. A. Selby-Bigge; P. H. Nidditch (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975). Note, Nidditch reproduces the the second volume of the posthumous edition of 1777, which he has collated with the preceding 1772 edition.

Weather::Wind

"Those sudden bursts of rage generally break out upon small occasions; for life, unhappy as it is, cannot supply great evils as frequently as the man of fire thinks it fit to be enraged; therefore the first reflection upon his violence must shew him that he is mean enough to be driven from his post by every petty incident, that he is the mere slave of casualty, and that his reason and virtue are in the power of the wind."

Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)

Rambler, No. 11

1750

Originally published semiweekly in 208 folio numbers: London: John Payne and J. Bouquet, 1750-1752. At least 46 entries in ESTC (1750, 1751, 1752, 1756, 1761, 1763, 1767, 1771, 1772, 1776, 1779, 1781, 1783, 1784, 1785, 1789, 1791, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1798, 1799, 1800).<br> <br> Text from Samuel Johnson, <u>Works of Samuel Johnson</u> (Troy, NY: Pafraets Book Company, 1903). Prepared by Charles Keller for UVa E-Text Center, 1995. &lt;<a href="http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/Joh1Ram.html">Link to UVa E-Text Center</a>&gt;

Weather::Wind

"Tho' his capacious Head, the sacred Ark! / Where a whole World of Science does imbark, / Has steer'd and labour'd all it can, / As Reason fill'd the Sail, / Yet what does all this fruitless search avail?"

Woodward, George (b. 1708?)

On Lucan Lib. IX. Verse. Jupiter est, quodcunque vides. An Ode. [from Poems on Several Occasions]

1730

Only 1 entry in ESTC (1730).<br> <br> <u>Poems on Several Occasions. By Mr. George Woodward.</u> (Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Printing-House, 1730). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T124981">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;

Weather::Wind

"Eternity's vast ocean lies before thee; / There, there, Lorenzo, thy Clarissa sails. / Give thy mind sea-room; keep it wide of earth, / That rock of souls immortal; cut thy cord; / Weigh anchor; spread thy sails; call every wind; / Eye thy great Pole-star; make the land of life."

Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)

Night the Seventh. Being the Second Part of the Infidel Reclaimed. Containing the Nature, Proof, and Importance, of Immortality. [Night-Thoughts]

1744

Uniform title published in 9 volumes, from 1742 to 1745. At least 133 reprintings after 1745 in ESTC (1747, 1748, 1749, 1750, 1751, 1752, 1755, 1756, 1757, 1758, 1760, 1761, 1762, 1764, 1765, 1766, 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1773, 1774, 1775, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780, 1782, 1783, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798, 1800).<br> <br> Edward Young, <u>Night the Seventh. Being the Second Part of the Infidel Reclaimed. Containing the Nature, Proof, and Importance, of Immortality</u>. (London: Printed for G. Hawkins, 1744). <br> <br> Text from <u>The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose, of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.</u>, 2 vols. (London: William Tegg, 1854). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=ixYUAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br> <br> Reading Edward Young, <u>Night Thoughts</u>, ed. Stephen Cornford (New York: Cambridge UP, 1989).

Weather::Wind

"Words drop like Hony from his Lips, his Mind / Is wav'ring and unconstant, as the Wind."

Anonymous

The Enquiry of Venus After Cupid. From the Greek of Moschus. [from Tonson's Miscellanies]

1704

<u>Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part. Containing a Collection of Original Poems, With Several New Translations. By the most Eminent Hands</u>. (London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1704). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=gg8UAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;

Weather::Wind

"Conceit, like Wind, has seiz'd the empty Head, and Men convulsively strive to utter what they want a Fund of Brains to yeild."

Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)

The Humour of the Age. A Comedy.

1701

At least 2 entries in the ESTC (1701).<br> <br> Thomas Baker, <u>The Humour of the Age. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane by His Majesty's Servants</u>. (London: Printed for R. Wellington and B. Bernard Lintott, 1701). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3309752070&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;

Weather::Wind

"I asked him, if he could give me any notion of the situation of our ideas which we have totally forgotten at the time, yet shall afterwards recollect. He paused, meditated a little, and acknowledged his ignorance in the spirit of a philosophical poet, by repeating as a very happy allusion a passage from Thomson's Seasons--Aye, said he, 'Where sleep the winds when it is calm?'"

Boswell, James (1740-1795)

The Hypochondriack, No. 67

1783

<u>The Hypochondriack</u>, No. 67 (April, 1783). See also <u>The London Magazine, or Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer</u> &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=lPwqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA164#v=onepage">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br> <br> See also James Boswell, <u>The Hypochondriack</u>, ed. Margery Bailey, 2 vols. (Stanford UP, 1928).

Weather::Wind

"Unhappy Sex! Whose easie yielding Temper / Gives Way to every Appetite alike; / Each gust of Inclination, uncontroul'd, / Sweeps thro' their Souls, and sets 'em in an uproar; / Each Motion of their Heart rises to Fury, / And Love in their weak Bosoms is a Rage / As terrible as Hate, and as destructive. / So the Wind roars o'er the wide fenceless Ocean, / And heaves the Billows of the boiling Deep, / Alike from North, from South, from East, and West ; / With equal Force the Tempest blows by turns / From every Corner of the Seaman's Compass."

Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)

The Tragedy of Jane Shore.

1714

Over seventy entries in the ESTC (1714, 1719, 1720, 1723, 1726, 1728, 1731, 1733, 1735, 1736, 1740, 1746, 1748, 1751, 1752, 1754, 1755, 1756, 1758, 1760, 1761, 1764, 1765, 1767, 1768, 1770, 1772, 1773, 1774, 1780, 1783, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1790, 1791).<br> <br> See <u>The Tragedy of Jane Shore. Written in Imitation of Shakespear's Style. By N. Rowe</u> (London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1714).

Weather::Wind

"The Soul of the Murther'd Person seeks no Revenge; all that Part is swallowed up in the Wonders of the eternal State, and Vengeance entirely resign'd to him to whom it belongs; but the Soul of the Murtherer is like the Ocean in a Tempest, he is in continual Motion, restless and raging; and the Guilt of the Fact, like the Winds to the Sea, lies on his Mind as a constant Pressure, and adds to that, (still like the Seas) 'tis hurry'd about by its own Weight, rolling to and again, Motion encreasing Motion, 'till it becomes a meer Mass of Horrour and Confusion."

Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)

An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions

1727

2 entries in ESTC (1727, 1728). For a publication history, see Rodney Baine's 1962 essay, "Daniel Defoe and 'The History and Reality of Apparitions.'" First edition, published by J. Roberts, appeared anonymously on March 18, 1727. Second issues were sold the same year by A. Millar. The 1735 edition, reissued in 1738 and 1740.<br> <br> Text from <u>An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions: Being an Account of What They are, and What They are Not; Whence They Come, and Whence They Come Not.</u> (London: Printed: and sold by J. Roberts, 1727). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004843878.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;

Weather::Wind

"The Mind of Will. Weathercock is like the Sail of a great Ship, that has Room, to contain much Wind; but, having none, of its own producing, is swell'd out, by Turns, from all the Quarters of the Compass."

Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

The Plain Dealer, No. 19

1724

Text from <u>The Plain Dealer: Being Select Essays on Several Curious Subjects: Relating to Friendship, ... Poetry, and Other Branches of Polite Literature. Publish'd originally in the year 1724. And Now First Collected into Two Volumes</u> (London: Printed for S. Richardson, and A. Wilde, 1730.) &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004891141.0001.001">Link to Vol. I in ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004891141.0001.002">Link to Vol. II in ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;

Weather::Wind

"Passion's wild Influence ebb'd, and flow'd, my Mind; / As Seas drive diff'rent, with the changing Wind."

Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

The Plain Dealer. No 32

1724

Text from <u>The Plain Dealer: Being Select Essays on Several Curious Subjects: Relating to Friendship, ... Poetry, and Other Branches of Polite Literature. Publish'd originally in the year 1724. And Now First Collected into Two Volumes</u> (London: Printed for S. Richardson, and A. Wilde, 1730.) &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004891141.0001.001">Link to Vol. I in ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004891141.0001.002">Link to Vol. II in ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;

Weather::Wind

"Unsteady nature, varying like the wind, / Hurries to each extreme th'unstable mind; / At sea becalm'd, we wish some brisker gales / Would on us rise, and fill our limber sails: / We have our wish; and straight our skiff is toss'd / So high, we are in danger to be lost."

Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)

Davideis. The Life of David, King of Israel. A Sacred Poem. In Five Books.

1712

Poem begun in 1688, not complete and published until 1712. 13 entries in ESTC (1712, 1722, 1727, 1749, 1751, 1754, 1760, 1763, 1764, 1785, 1792, 1796, 1797).<br> <br> Text from <u>Davideis. The Life of David, King of Israel. A Sacred Poem. In Five Books. by Thomas Ellwood.</u> 5th edition (London: Printed by James Phillips, 1796).<br> <br> See also <u>Davideis. The Life of David, King of Israel. A Sacred Poem. In Five Books. by Thomas Ellwood.</u> (London: Printed and Sold by the Assigns of J. Sowle, in White-Hart-Court in Gracious-Street, 1712). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T84827">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=XSJWAAAAYAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;

Weather::Wind::Blast

"Was our Reason given / For such a Use! to be thus puff'd about / Like a dry Leaf, an idle Straw, a Feather, / The Sport of every whifling Blast that blows?"

Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)

The Tragedy of Jane Shore.

1714

Over seventy entries in the ESTC (1714, 1719, 1720, 1723, 1726, 1728, 1731, 1733, 1735, 1736, 1740, 1746, 1748, 1751, 1752, 1754, 1755, 1756, 1758, 1760, 1761, 1764, 1765, 1767, 1768, 1770, 1772, 1773, 1774, 1780, 1783, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1790, 1791).<br> <br> See <u>The Tragedy of Jane Shore. Written in Imitation of Shakespear's Style. By N. Rowe</u> (London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1714).

Weather::Wind::Gales

"The Year, yet pleasing, but declining fast, / Soft, o'er the secret Soul, in gentle Gales, / A Philosophic Melancholly breathes, / And bears the swelling Thought aloft to Heaven."

Thomson, James (1700-1748)

Winter. A Poem.

1726

Text from Jack Lynch's transcription of 1726 printing &lt;<a ref="http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/winter.html">Link</a>&gt;.<br> <br> See <u>Winter. A Poem. By James Thomson</u>. (London: N. Blandford, 1726). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3311406098&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to 2nd edition in ECCO</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=H8cIAAAAQAAJ">Link to 3rd edition in Google Books</a>&gt;<br> <br> The poem was much revised and expanded between 1726 and 1746. I first searched metaphors in <u>The Poetical Works</u> (1830) through Stanford HDIS interface, later checked against earlier editions. Also reading James Sambrook's edition of <u>The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence</u> (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), which is based on the 1746 edition of Thomson's poem.<br> <br> First collected in <u>The Seasons, A Hymn, A Poem to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton, and Britannia, a Poem. By Mr. Thomson</u> (1730). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW112624885&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt; Reprinted, revised and expanded in 1744, 1746. See also <u>The Seasons. By James Thomson.</u> (1744). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW112456916&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt; And <u>The Seasons. By James Thomson.</u> (1746). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3315865100&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;

Weather::Wind::Gust

"Weak, impotent, yet wishing to be free, / You are by much a greater Slave, than me; / A Slave, to ev'ry Gust that shakes your Mind, / Your Eyes broad open, and your Senses blind."

Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]

Horace, Book II. Satire VII. Imitated: Or, A Dialogue between a Man of Fashion and his Valet.

1752

See <u>Horace, Book II. Satire vii. Imitated: or, a Dialogue Between a Man of Fashion and His Valet. Inscribed to Richard Owen Cambridge, Esq; by Sir Nicholas Nemo, Knt.</u> (London: Printed for W. Owen, 1752). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T36653">Link to ESTC</a>&gt; &lt;<a href="http://gateway.proquest.com.proxy.its.virginia.edu/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xr i:lion&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:po:Z200344013:2">Link to LION</a>&gt; [No attribution in ESTC].

Weather::Wind::Gust

One may take pains to conquer "sudden gusts of passion"

Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

The History of Sir Charles Grandison. In a Series of Letters.

1753

At least 31 entries in ESTC (1753, 1754, 1756, 1762, 1765, 1766, 1770, 1776, 1780, 1781, 1783, 1785, 1786, 1793, 1795, 1796).<br> <br> See <u>The History of Sir Charles Grandison. In a Series of Letters Published from the Originals, by the Editor of Pamela and Clarissa. In Seven Volumes.</u> (London: Printed for S. Richardson; and sold by C. Hitch and L. Hawes, in Pater-noster Row; by J. and J. Rivington, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard; by Andrew Millar, in the Strand; by R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall; and by J. Leake, at Bath, 1754). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T58995">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004782202.0001.001">Link to Vol. 1 ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004782202.0001.002">Vol. 2</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004782202.0001.003">Vol. 3</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004782202.0001.004">Vol. 4</a>&gt&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004782202.0001.005">Vol. 5</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004782202.0001.006">Vol. 6</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004782202.0001.007">Vol. 7</a>&gt;

Weather::Wind::Gust

"But here, you must distinguish--the thought floated only in Dr. Slop's mind, without sail or ballast to it, as a simple proposition; millions of which, as your worship knows, are every day swiming quietly in the middle of the thin juice of a man's understanding, without being carried backwards or forwards, till some little gusts of passion or interest drive them to one side."

Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

1760

At least 82 entries in ESTC (1759, 1760, 1761, 1762, 1763, 1765, 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1773, 1774, 1775, 1776, 1777, 1779, 1780, 1781, 1782, 1783, 1786, 1788, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1798, 1799, 1800). Complicated publication history: vols. 1 and 2 published in London January 1, 1760. Vols. 3, 4, 5, and 6 published in 1761. Vols. 7 and 8 published in 1765. Vol. 9 published in 1767.<br> <br> See Laurence Sterne, <u>The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman</u>, 9 vols. (London: Printed for D. Lynch, 1760-1767). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CW114738374&source=gale&userGroupName=viva_uva&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CW114607600&source=gale&userGroupName=viva_uva&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to 1759 York edition in ECCO</a>&gt;<br> <br> First two volumes available in ECCO-TCP: &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004792564.0001.001">Vol. 1</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004792564.0001.002">Vol. 2</a>&gt;. Most text from second London edition &lt;<a href="http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xri:lion&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:pr:Z000046871:0">Link to LION</a>&gt;.<br> <br> For vols. 3-4, see ESTC T14705 &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T14705">R. and J. Dodsley, 1761</a>&gt;. For vols. 5-6, see ESTC T14706 &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T14706">T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, 1762</a>&gt;. For vols. 7-8, see ESTC T14820 &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T14820">T. Becket and P. A. Dehont, 1765</a>&gt;. For vol. 9, <a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T14824">T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, 1767</a>.<br> <br> Reading in Laurence Sterne, <u>Tristram Shandy: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism</u>, Ed. Howard Anderson (New York: Norton, 1980).

Weather::Wind::Gust

"Or by the vocal Woods and Waters lull'd, / And lost in lonely Musing, in the Dream, / Confus'd, of careless Solitude, where mix / Ten thousand wandering Images of Things; / Soothe every Gust of Passion into Peace; / All but the Swellings of the soften'd Heart, / That waken, not disturb, the tranquil Mind."

Thomson, James (1700-1748)

Spring [from The Seasons (1746)]

1746

See <u>The Seasons. By James Thomson.</u> (London: Printed [by Henry Woodfall] for A. Millar, in the Strand, 1746). 234 pp. &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3315865100&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br> <br> "Spring" was first published in 1728. Text revised and expanded between 1728 and 1746. Searching metaphors in <u>The Poetical Works</u> (1830) through Stanford HDIS interface, later checked against earlier editions. Also reading James Sambrook's edition of <u>The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence</u> (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), which reproduces the 1746 edition of Thomson's poem.<br>

Weather::Wind::Gusts

"I cannot reach that heavenly shore, / The gusts of passion rise / So fierce, so high the billows roll, / And on this long afflicted soul / So huge a tempest lies"

Wesley, John and Charles

2993. A Picture of My Life I view [from The Acts of the Apostles]

1762

Wesley, John and Wesley, Charles. <u>The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley</u>. Ed. G. Osborn. Vol. XII. London: R. Needham, 1872.

Weather::Wind::Gusts

"And, like my friend, a gen'rous aim pursues: / To combat vice in this licentious age, / To teach the pleasing moral from the stage, / The rising gusts of passion to controul"

Stevens, George Alexander (1710?-1784)

The Fair Orphan, a Comic Opera

1771

At least 2 entries in the ESTC (1771).<br> <br> See <u>The Fair Orphan, a Comic Opera, of Three Acts: As performed at the Theatre in Lynn, by Mr. G. A. Stevens's Company of Comedians.</u> (Lynn: Printed by W. Whittingham, for W. Nicoll, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, and R. Baldwin, in Pater-Noster-Row, London, 1771). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T126017">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;

Weather::Wind::Gusts

"The sudden Gusts of these Passions being thus accounted for, when they become extreme they drive about the Blood with such a Hurricane, that Nature is overset, like a Mill by a Flood: So that what drove it only quicker round before, now intirely stops it, and renders the Countenance pale and ghastly."

Cheyne, George (1671-1743)

An Essay of Health and Long Life

1724

Cheyne, George. <u>An Essay of Health and Long Life</u> (London: George Strahan, 1724). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=5wIAAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;

Weather::Wind::Gusts of Passion

Romances "ventilate the mind by sudden gusts of passion; and prevent the stagnation of thought, by a fresh infusion of dissimilar ideas"

Barbauld, Anna Letitia [n&eacute;e Aikin] (1743-1825)

On Romances [from Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose]

1774

Weather::Wind::Whirlwind

"Are these the Proofs of Tenderness and Love? / These endless Quarrels, Discontents, and Jealousies, / These never ceasing Wailings and Complainings, / These furious Starts, these Whirlwinds of the Soul, / Which every other Moment rise to Madness?"

Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)

The Tragedy of Jane Shore.

1714

Over seventy entries in the ESTC (1714, 1719, 1720, 1723, 1726, 1728, 1731, 1733, 1735, 1736, 1740, 1746, 1748, 1751, 1752, 1754, 1755, 1756, 1758, 1760, 1761, 1764, 1765, 1767, 1768, 1770, 1772, 1773, 1774, 1780, 1783, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1790, 1791).<br> <br> See <u>The Tragedy of Jane Shore. Written in Imitation of Shakespear's Style. By N. Rowe</u> (London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1714).

Weather::Wind::Whirlwind

"His wav'ring mind is in a whirlwind tost."

Mendez, Moses (1690 - c.1758)

The Squire of Dames. A Poem

1755

<a href="http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu">Spenser & the Tradition</a> records reprintings in 1758, 1763, 1765, 1766, 1770, 1775, 1782.<br> <br> Text from <u>A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes. By Several Hands</u> (London: Printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1755).

Weather::Wind::Whirlwinds

"Your passions late were wing'd, like vengeful whirlwinds, / Now they sink, sighing, to a gale of sorrow!"

Savage, Richard (1697&#47;8-1743)

Sir Thomas Overbury. A Tragedy

1724

4 entries in ESTC (1724, 1777, 1779).<br> <br> See <u>The Tragedy of Sir Thomas Overbury: As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane</u> (London: Printed for Samuel Chapman, 1724). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004884083.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt; <br> <br> Searching <u>The Works of Richard Savage</u>(London: Printed for T. Evans, 1777), from which the text is drawn.

Weather::Wind::Zephyr

"Zephyrs, that oft, where lovers list'ning lie, / Along the grove, in melting music die, / And in lone caves to minds poetic roll / Seraphic whispers, that abstract the soul."

Savage, Richard (1697&#47;8-1743)

The Wanderer

1729

At least 8 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1729, 1761, 1775, 1775, 1777, 1779, 1780).<br> <br> See also <u>The Wanderer: A Poem. In Five Canto's. By Richard Savage, Son of the late Earl Rivers</u>. (London: Printed for J. Walthoe, 1729). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T136306">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW115646323&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br> <br> Text from <u>The Works of Richard Savage ... With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, by Samuel Johnson.</u> A New Edition (London: Printed for T. Evans, 1777). &lt;<a href="http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xr i:lion&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:po:Z300480907:3">Link to LION</a>&gt;

Weather::Wind::Zephyr

"And yet, let but a zephyr's breath begin/ To stir the latent excellence within-- / Waked in that moment's elemental strife, / Impassion'd genius feels the breath of life; / The' expanding heart delights to leap and glow, / The pulse to kindle, and the tear to flow."

Cawthorn, James (1719-1761)

The Regulation of the Passions, The Source of Human Happiness. A Moral Essay.

1771

"Spoken at the Anniversary Visitation of the Tunbridge School, 1755." At least 5 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1771, 1790, 1795, 1800).<br> <br> See <u>Poems, by the Rev. Mr. Cawthorn. Late Master of Tunbridge School.</u> (London: Printed by W. Woodfall: and sold by S. Bladon, 1771). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T2143">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW110607857&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br> <br> Text from <u>The Poems of Hill, Cawthorn, and Bruce</u> (Chiswick: C. Whittinham, 1822). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=-CBAAAAAYAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;

Weather::Winds

"Even there the passions reign; but they rove through the mind like murmuring, winds through barren and gloomy regions."

Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)

The Royal Captives: a Fragment of Secret History

1795

Ann Yearsley, <u>The Royal Captives: a Fragment of Secret History. Copied from an Old Manuscript by Ann Yearsley.</u> (London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1795). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=sawBAAAAQAAJ">Link to volume 1 in Google Books</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW109432815&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;

Weather::Winds

"While o'er my limbs Sleep's soft dominion spread, / What though my soul fantastic measures trod / O'er fairy fields; or mourn'd along the gloom / Of pathless woods; or, down the craggy steep / Hurl'd headlong, swam with pain the mantled pool; / Or scaled the cliff; or danced on hollow winds, / With antic shapes, wild natives of the brain?"

Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)

The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality

1742

Uniform title published in 9 volumes, from 1742 to 1745. At least 133 reprintings after 1745 in ESTC (1747, 1748, 1749, 1750, 1751, 1752, 1755, 1756, 1757, 1758, 1760, 1761, 1762, 1764, 1765, 1766, 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1773, 1774, 1775, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780, 1782, 1783, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798, 1800).<br> <br> See Edward Young, <u>The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality</u> (London: Printed for R. Dodsley, 1742). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=nA0UAAAAQAAJ">Link to 2nd edition in Google Books</a>&gt;<br> <br> Text from <u>The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose, of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.</u>, 2 vols. (London: William Tegg, 1854). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=ixYUAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt; Reading Edward Young, <u>Night Thoughts</u>, ed. Stephen Cornford (New York: Cambridge UP, 1989).

Weather::Winds

"And oh impute not one unheeded Word, / Forc'd from her in the bitterest Pangs of Sorrow, / When fierce conflicting Passions strove within, / Like all the Winds at once let loose upon the Main, / When wild Distraction rul'd."

Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)

Ulysses: A Tragedy

1706

Eighteen entries in the ESTC (1706, 1714, 1719, 1720, 1726, 1728, 1733, 1735, 1736, 1750, 1764, 1778, 1791).<br> <br> See <u>Ulysses: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Queen's Theatre in the Hay-Market. By Her Majesty's Sworn Servants. Written by N. Rowe</u> (London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1706). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW113307330&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;

Weather::Winds

"Strong as the Winds, and sprightly as the Light? / She [the mind] moves unweary'd, as the active Fire, / And, like the Flame, her Flights to Heav'n aspire."

Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

Creation: A Philosophical Poem.

1712

At least 8 entries in ESTC (1712, 1715, 1718, 1736, 1797).<br> <br> Text from Sir Richard Blackmore, <u>Creation: A Philosophical Poem. Demonstrating the Existence and Providence of a God</u>, 2nd ed. (London: S. Buckley and J. Tonson, 1712). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T74302">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3312797114&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br> <br> Other Online Editions:<br> First edition (also published in 1712) is available &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3313387692&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt; &lt<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=D8Lku4c3SCYC">Link to 1715 edition in Google Books</a>&gt;

Weather::Winds

"Let those who possess the talents, or the virtues, by which he was distinguished, avoid similar wretchedness, by guarding their minds against the influence of passion; since, if it be once suffered to acquire an undue ascendency over reason, we shall in vain attempt to controul its power: we might as soon arrest the winds in their violence, or stop the torrent in its course. It is too late to rear the mounds of defence when the impetuous flood rages in its strength, and overthrows all opposition."

Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)

Julia, a Novel; Interspersed with Some Poetical Pieces

1790

2 entries in ESTC (1790).<br><br> Julia, a Novel; Interspersed with Some Poetical Pieces. By Helen Maria Williams. In Two Volumes. (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1790). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004843341.0001.001">Vol. I, Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004843341.0001.002">Vol. II, Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br>

Weather::Winds

"The Threats of Death are nothing; / Tho' thy last Message shook his Soul, as Winds / On the bleak Hills bend down some lofty Pine; / Yet still he held his Root; till I found Means, / Abating somewhat of thy first Demand, / If not to make him wholly ours, at least / To gain sufficient to our End."

Hughes, John (1678?-1720)

The Siege Of Damascus. A Tragedy

1720

First performed February 17, 1720. 24 entries in ESTC (1720, 1721, 1727, 1735, 1741, 1744, 1752, 1753, 1759, 1765, 1768, 1770, 1774, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1790, 1793).<br> <br> <u>The Siege Of Damascus. A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By His Majesty's Servants. By John Hughes</u> (London: Printed for John Watts, 1720).

Weather::Winds

"For all was pure within: No fell Remorse, / Nor anxious Castings up of what might be, / Alarm'd his peaceful Bosom: Summer Seas / Shew not more smooth, when kiss'd by Southern Winds / Just ready to expire."

Blair, Robert (1699-1746)

The Grave. A Poem.

1743

Over 100 entries in ESTC (1743, 1747, 1749, 1751, 1753, 1756, 1785, 1761, 1764, 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1773, 1774, 1776, 1777, 1779, 1780, 1781, 1782, 1783, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798, 1799, 1800). Reprinted with great frequency after 1789. <br> <br> Text from <u>The Grave. A Poem.</u> 4th ed. (London: Printed and Sold by J. Waugh, 1753).<br> <br> See also <u>The Grave. A Poem. By Robert Blair.</u> (London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1743). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/N18218">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=ByoOAQAAMAAJ">Link to 2nd edition in Google Books</a>&gt;

Weather::Winter

"Close crowds the shining atmosphere; and binds / Our strengthen'd bodies in its cold embrace, / Constringent; feeds, and animates our blood; / Refines our spirits, through the new-strung nerves, / In swifter sallies darting to the brain; / Where sits the soul, intense, collected, cool, / Bright as the skies, and as the season keen."

Thomson, James (1700-1748)

Winter [from The Seasons (1730)]

1730

"Winter" was first published in 1726, and first collected in 1730. See <u>The Seasons, A Hymn, A Poem to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton, and Britannia, a Poem. By Mr. Thomson</u> (1730). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW112624885&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt; Reprinted, revised and expanded in 1744, 1746. See also <u>The Seasons. By James Thomson.</u> (1744). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW112456916&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt; And <u>The Seasons. By James Thomson.</u> (1746). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3315865100&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br> <br> Text transcribed from <u>The Seasons. By Mr. Thomson</u> (London: Printed in the Year 1730). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW113342337&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>

Weather::Winter

"Sorrow, Remorse, and Shame, have torn my Soul, / They hang like Winter on my Youthful Hopes, / And blast the Spring and Promise of my Year."

Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)

The Fair Penitent. A Tragedy

1703

Over seventy entries in the ESTC (1703, 1714, 1718, 1721, 1723, 1726, 1727, 1728, 1730, 1732, 1733, 1735, 1736, 1736, 1737, 1739, 1742, 1746, 1747, 1750, 1753, 1754, 1755, 1757, 1758, 1759, 1760, 1761, 1763, 1764, 1766, 1768, 1770, 1771, 1774, 1775, 1776, 1777, 1782, 1783, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1795, 1797, 1800).<br> <br> See <u>The Fair Penitent. A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the New Theatre In Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields. By Her Majesty's Servants. Written by N. Rowe</u> (London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1703). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CB3327571071&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004892945.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br> <br> Reading Jean Marsden's edition in <u>The Broadview Anthology of Restoration & Early Eighteenth-Century Drama</u> (Peterborough, Broadview, 2001).

Writing

"Has She a Bodkin and a Card? / She'll prick her Mind."

Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)

An English Padlock

1705

First printed in <u>The Diverting Post</u> (30 December-6 January, 1704/5).<br> <br> See <u>An English Padlock</u> (London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1705). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com.proxy.its.virginia.edu/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW113744787&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br> <br> See also the slightly longer version in <u>Poems on Several Occasions</u> (London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, within Grays-Inn Gate next Grays-Inn Lane, 1709 [1708]). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com.proxy.its.virginia.edu/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW111229329&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br> <br> Reading <u>The Literary Works of Matthew Prior</u>, ed. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears, 2 vols. Second Edition (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1971).

Writing

"I can write my whole Mind to you, tho' I cannot, from the most deplorable Infelicity, receive from you the wish'd for Favour of a few Lines in Return, written with the same Unreservedness."

Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded.

1740

Over 53 entries in ESTC (1740, 1741, 1742, 1743, 1746, 1754, 1762, 1767, 1771, 1772, 1775, 1776, 1785, 1792, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798, 1799). [Richardson published third and fourth volumes in 1741.]<br> <br> First edition published in two volumes on 6 November, 1740--dated 1741 on the title page. Volumes 3 and 4 were published in December 7, 1741 (this sequel is sometimes called <u>Pamela in her Exalted Condition</u>).<br> <br> See Samuel Richardson, <u>Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded. In a Series of Familiar Letters from a Beautiful Young Damsel, to Her Parents: Now First Published in Order to Cultivate the Principles of Virtue and Religion in the Minds of the Youth of Both Sexes. A Narrative Which Has Its Foundation in Truth and Nature: and at the Same Time That It Agreeably Entertains, by a Variety of Curious and Affecting Incidents, Is Intirely Divested of All Those Images, Which, in Too Many Pieces Calculated for Amusement Only, Tend to Inflame the Minds They Should Instruct</u> (London: C. Rivington and J. Robinson, 1740). [Title page says 1741] &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T111392">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com.proxy.its.virginia.edu/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW112764551&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004873068.0001.001">Link to first vol. of 3rd edition in ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br> <br> See also <u>Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded. in a Series of Familiar Letters from a Beautiful Young Damsel to Her Parents: and Afterwards, in Her Exalted Condition, Between Her, and Persons of Figure and Quality, Upon the Most Important and Entertaining Subjects, in Genteel Life. the Third and Fourth Volumes. Publish’d in Order to Cultivate the Principles of Virtue and Religion in the Minds of the Youth of Both Sexes. by the Editor of the Two First.</u> (London: Printed for S. Richardson: and sold by C. Rivington, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard; and J. Osborn, in Pater-Noster Row, [1742] [1741]). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T111391">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br> <br> All searching was originally done in Chadwyck Healey's eighteenth-century prose fiction database through Stanford's HDIS interface. Chadwyck-Healey contains electronic texts of the original editions (1740-1741) and the 6th edition (1742).

Writing

"Search each his own Breast first, read that with Care, / And mark if no one Crime be written There!"

Miller, James (1704-1744)

Seasonable Reproof: Or, The Poetical Pillory. A Satire. In the Manner of Horace. [from Miscellaneous Work in Verse and Prose. By Mr. Miller: Volume the first]

1741

Writing

"Burn this paper, I conjure you, the moment you have read it; but lay the contents of it up in your heart never to be forgotten."

Haywood [n&eacute;e Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

The Fortunate Foundlings

1744

5 entries in ESTC (1744, 1746, 1748, 1761).<br> <br> Text from <u>The Fortunate Foundlings: Being the Genuine History of Colonel M---rs, and his Sister, Madam du P---y, the Issue of Hon. Ch---es M---rs, Son of the late Duke of R---l---d. Containing Many wonderful Accidents that befel them in their Travels, and interspersed with the Characters and Adventures of Several Persons of Condition, in the most polite Courts of Europe. The Whole Calculated for the Entertainment and Improvement of the Youth of both Sexes.</u> 2nd ed. (London: Printed and published by T. Gardner, 1744).

Writing

"Still let my faithful Memory impart, / And deep engrave it on my grateful heart, / How just, and good, and excellent Thou art."

Pilkington, Laetitia (c. 1709-1750)

Memory, A Poem

1748

Text from Lonsdale, R. Ed. <u>Eighteenth Century Women Poets</u>. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.<br> <br> See <u>Memoirs: of Mrs. Lætitia Pilkington, Wife to the Rev. Mr. Matthew Pilkington. Written by Herself. Wherein Are Occasionally Interspersed, All Her Poems; With Anecdotes of Several Eminent Persons, Living and Dead. Among Others, Dean Swift, Alexander Pope</u> ([London]: Dublin printed; London reprinted: and sold by R. Griffiths, and G. Woodfall, 1748), 137-139. &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004894667.0001.001">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;

Writing

"Saint Paul, bears Testimony, also, to the Impression of this Law of Rights on the Consciences and Hearts of all Men" in Romans, chapter 2: "Not the Hearers of the Law are just before God, but the Doers of the Law shall be justified. For, when the Gentiles, which have not the Law, do by Nature the Things contained in the Law, These, having not the Law, are a Law unto themselves. Which shew the work of the Law written in their Hearts"

Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

The Fool of Quality, or, the History of Henry Earl of Moreland

1765

17 entries in the ESTC (1765, 1766, 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1776, 1777, 1782, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794).<br> <br> Text from <u>The Fool of Quality, or, the History of Henry Earl of Moreland.</u> (Dublin: Printed for the Author by Dillon Chamberlaine, 1765-1770). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?type=search&tabID=T001&queryId=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29%3AFQE%3D%28BN%2CNone%2C7%29T059854%24&sort=Author&searchType=AdvancedSearchForm&version=1.0&prodId=ECCO">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;. Note, vol. 2 is dated 1766, vol. 3 1768, vol. 4 1769, vol. 5 1770.

Writing

Love's laws may be "written in the mind"

Cowper, William (1731-1800)

The Vicissitudes Experienced in a Christian Life

1783

Cowper, William. <u>The Poems of William Cowper</u>. 3 vols. Ed. John D. Baird and Charles Ryskamp. Oxford: Oxford UP: 1980. Vol II.

Writing

"The great laws of morality are indeed written in our hearts, and may be discovered by reason: but our reason is of slow growth, very unequally dispensed to different persons, liable to error, and confined within very narrow limits in all."

Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)

Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Lady

1773

At least 32 entries in ESTC (1773, 1774, 1775, 1777, 1778, 1783, 1786, 1787, 1790, 1793, 1797, 1800).<br> <br> See Hester Chapone, <u>Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Lady</u>, 2 vols. (London: Printed by H. Hughs for J. Walter, 1773). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CW114742139&source=gale&userGroupName=viva_uva&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt; &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=_a1bAAAAQAAJ">Vol. 1 in Google Books</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35890/35890-h/35890-h.htm">Project Gutenberg Edition</a>&gt;

Writing

"Hark you, mine honest friend! a woman in love enquires not whether the object of her passion can read or write; for love is only legible in the eyes, and in the heart only is it written."

Dutton, Thomas (fl. 1770-1815); Kotzebue (1761-1819)

Pizarro in Peru, or the Death of Rolla; Being the Original of the New Tragedy

1799

Trans Thomas Dutton, <u>Pizarro in Peru, or the Death of Rolla; Being the Original of the New Tragedy. Now Performing at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. Translated from the last German Edition of Augustus von Kotzebue, with notes, &c. by Thomas Dutton, A. M. Author of the Literary Census.</u> (London: printed for W. West, 1799). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CW113949179&source=gale&userGroupName=viva_uva&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;

Writing

"Memory in a great measure depends upon the body, and is often much injured by a disease, and afterwards recovered with recovering strength, which on the Cartesian hypothesis is accounted for, by supposing that those parts of the brain, on which these characters are written, are by such disorders relaxed, in the same manner as the nerves in the other parts of the body are liable to be weakened or disabled."

Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751)

A Course of Lectures on the Principal Subjects in Pneumatology, Ethics, and Divinity

1763

4 entries in ESTC (1763, 1776, 1794, 1799).<br> <br> First published as <u>A Course of Lectures on the Principal subjects in Pneumatology, Ethics, and Divinity: with References to the Most Considerable Authors on Each Subject. By the late Reverend Philip Doddridge, D.D.</u> (London: J. Buckland, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, L. Hawes, W. Clarke and R. Collins, W. Johnston, J. Richardson, S. Crowder and Co. T. Longman, B. Law, T. Field, and H. Payne and W. Cropley, 1763). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CB127564666&source=gale&userGroupName=viva_uva&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br> <br> Text drawn from Philip Doddridge, <u>A Course of Lectures on the Principal Subjects in Pneumatology, Ethics, and Divinity</u>, Ed. Andrew Kippis, vol i (London: Printed for S. Crowder, T. Longman, B. Law and Son, G.G. and J. Robinson, etc., 1794). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=AxItAAAAYAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CB127564666&source=gale&userGroupName=viva_uva&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br> <br> S. Clark's edition of 1763 was reprinted in 1776. The Kippis edition of 1794 was reprinted in 1799.

Writing

"They are plainly and explicitly published; easily understood; and in fair and legible characters writ in every man's heart; and the wisdom, reason, and necessity of them are readily discerned."

Mason, John (1706–1763)

Self-Knowledge. A Treatise.

1745

20 entries in ESTC (1745, 1746, 1748, 1753, 1754, 1755, 1758, 1760, 1764, 1767, 1769, 1774, 1778, 1784, 1788, 1791, 1792, 1794, 1797).<br> <br> <u>Self-Knowledge. A Treatise, Shewing the Nature and Benefit of that Important Science, and The Way to attain it. Intermixed with various Reflections and Observations on Human Nature. By John Mason, A.M.</u> (London: J. Waugh, 1745). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3320315966&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to Google</a>&gt;

Writing

"Amurath himself was also in the Fleet, and and hearing that the Tunis Vessel was commanded by the Renegado Dragut, and that he had some young Men on board arm'd, and three Women, one of them an admirable Beauty, he made them all come on board his Ship. He presently knew Rosalinda, whose Picture had been too deeply engrav'd in his Mind to be easily forgot."

Morando, Bernardo (1589-1656); Gaspard Moïse de Fontanieu; Anonymous

Rosalinda, A Novel

1733

<u>Rosalinda, A Novel. Containing the Histories of Rosalinda and Lealdus, Dorisba and Leander, Emilia and Edward, Adelais, Daughter of Otho II. And Alerames, Duke of Saxony. With a most remarkable Story of Edmund, the Gallant Early of Salisbury, Nephew to that Earl of Essex who was General of the Parliament Army against K. Charles I. Intermix'd with a Variety of the most affecting Scenes, both of Distress and Happiness. By a Man of Quality. Translated from the French.</u> (London: Printed for C. Davis, 1733). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T129715">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=7GRIAAAAYAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;

Writing

"Sir, Dr Cheyne has laid down a rule to himself on this subject, which should be imprinted on every mind: 'To neglect nothing to secure my eternal peace, more than if I had been certified I should die within the day: nor to mind any thing that my secular obligations and duties demanded of me, less than if I had been ensured to live fifty years more.'"

Boswell, James (1740-1795)

The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

1785

At least 5 entries in ESTC (1785, 1786, 1791).<br> <br> See <u>The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. By James Boswell, Esq. Containing Some Poetical Pieces by Dr. Johnson, relative to the Tour, and never before published; A Series of his Conversation, Literary Anecdotes, and Opinions of Men and Books: With an Authentick Account of The Distresses and Escape of the Grandson of King James II. in the Year 1746.</u> (London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, 1785). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3302152684&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br> <br> Text from Johnson, Samuel and James Boswell. <u>A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides</u>, ed. Peter Levi. (New York: Penguin Books, 1984).

Writing

He was allowed to do so, and read it till every word was imprinted on his memory; and after enjoying the sad luxury of holding it that night on his bosom, was forced the next morning to relinquish his treasure."

Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)

Letters Written in France, in the Summer of 1790

1790

Seven entries in ESTC (1790, 1791, 1792, 1794, 1796).<br> <br> See Helen Maria Williams, <u>Letters Written in France, In the Summer of 1790, To a Friend in England; Containing Various Anecdotes Relative to the French Revolution; and Memoirs of Mons. and Madame De F----.</u> (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1790). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T91663">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3305215385&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br> <br> Text drawn from fourth edition of 1794 &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=pf5HiMDsMoUC">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;.<br> <br> Reading <u>Letters Written in France</u>, eds. Neil Fraistat and Susan S. Lanser (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview: 2001).

Writing

"Non, mon digne ami; ce n’est point sur quelques feuilles éparses qu’il faut aller chercher la loi de Dieu, mais dans le coeur de l’homme, où sa main daigna l’écrire. [It is not at all in a few sparse pages that we must seek for God's law, but in the human heart, where His hand deigned to write."

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)

Letter to A. M. Verne (March 25, 1758)

1758

Text from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, <u>Collection complète des œuvres</u>, 17 vols (Genève, 1780–1788). &lt;<a href="http://www.rousseauonline.ch/home.php">Link to Rousseau Online</a>&gt;

Writing

"Si la loi naturelle n'était écrite que dans la raison humaine, elle serait peu capable de diriger la plupart de nos actions. Mais elles est encore gravée dans le coeur de l'homme en caractères ineffaçables; et c'est là qu'elle lui parle plus fortement que tous les préceptes des philosophes; c'est là qu'elle lui crie qu'il ne lui est permis de sacrfier la vie de son semblable qu'à la conservation de la sienne, et qu'elle lui fait horreur de verser le sang humain sans colère, même quand il s'y vot obligé."

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)

État de Guerre [unpublished fragment]

1755

<u>L'état de guerre and Projet de paix perpétuelle; two essays by Jean-Jacques Rousseau</u>, ed. Shirley G. Patterson (New York: Putnam, 1920). &lt;<a href="http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001756031">Link to Hathi Trust</a>&gt;

Writing

"When of old / Arcadia's peaceful shepherds uncontroul'd / Their ranging flocks thro' boundless pastures drove, / Or tun'd their pipes beneath the myrtle grove, / Their laws on brazen tablets unimprest / Were deeply grav'd on each ingenuous breast, / No proud Vicegerent of Astrea reign'd, / Astrea's self her own decrees maintained."

Wodhull, Michael (1740–1816)

The Equality of Mankind. A Poem.

1765

ECCO and ESTC (1765, 1772, 1775, 1798, 1799).<br> <br> See <u>The Equality of Mankind. A Poem. By Mr. Wodhull.</u> (Oxford: Printed by W. Jackson: sold by T. Beckett, and P. A. de Hondt, in the Strand; and T. Payne, at the Meuse-Gate, London, 1765)<br> <br> Text from <u>A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes. by Several Hands</u> (London: Printed for G. Pearch, 1770). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004876766.0001.004">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;

Writing

"But Words and Things which he lately spoke or did, they are immediately forgot, because the Brain is now grown more dry and solid in its Consistence, and receives not much more impression than if you wrote with your Finger on a Floor of Clay, or a plaister'd Wall."

Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)

The Improvement of the Mind

1741

32 entries in ESTC (1741, 1743, 1753, 1754, 1761, 1768, 1773, 1782, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1798, 1799, 1800).<br> <br> Most text drawn from Google Books. See <u>The Improvement of the Mind: or, a Supplement to the Art of Logick: Containing a Variety of Remarks and Rules for the Attainment and Communication of Useful Knowledge, in Religion, in the Sciences, and in Common Life. By I. Watts, D.D.</u> (London: Printed for James Brackstone, at the Globe in Cornhill, 1741). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T82959">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=LMwAAAAAcAAJ">Link to 2nd edition in Google Books</a>&gt;<br> <br>

Writing

"Maronides had got the first hundred Lines of Virgil's 'Æneis' printed upon his Memory so perfectly, that he knew not only the Order and Number of every Verse from one to a hundred in Perfection, but the Order and Number of every Word in each Verse also."

Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)

The Improvement of the Mind

1741

32 entries in ESTC (1741, 1743, 1753, 1754, 1761, 1768, 1773, 1782, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1798, 1799, 1800).<br> <br> Most text drawn from Google Books. See <u>The Improvement of the Mind: or, a Supplement to the Art of Logick: Containing a Variety of Remarks and Rules for the Attainment and Communication of Useful Knowledge, in Religion, in the Sciences, and in Common Life. By I. Watts, D.D.</u> (London: Printed for James Brackstone, at the Globe in Cornhill, 1741). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T82959">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=LMwAAAAAcAAJ">Link to 2nd edition in Google Books</a>&gt;<br> <br>

Writing

"Let every thing we desire to remember <em>be fairly and distinctly written and divided into Periods, with large Characters in the Beginning</em>; for by this Means we shall the more readily imprint the Matter and Words on our Minds, and recollect them with a Glance, the more remarkable the Writing appears to the <em>Eye</em>."

Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)

The Improvement of the Mind

1741

32 entries in ESTC (1741, 1743, 1753, 1754, 1761, 1768, 1773, 1782, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1798, 1799, 1800).<br> <br> Most text drawn from Google Books. See <u>The Improvement of the Mind: or, a Supplement to the Art of Logick: Containing a Variety of Remarks and Rules for the Attainment and Communication of Useful Knowledge, in Religion, in the Sciences, and in Common Life. By I. Watts, D.D.</u> (London: Printed for James Brackstone, at the Globe in Cornhill, 1741). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T82959">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=LMwAAAAAcAAJ">Link to 2nd edition in Google Books</a>&gt;<br> <br>

Writing

"Why, Child, to have the Spirit of God which wrote that Word, print it in your Mind, and give you Understanding both to read and obey it."

Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)

The Family Instructor: In Three Parts

1715

27 entries in ESTC (1715, 1717, 1718, 1720, 1725, 1727, 1732, 1734, 1741, 1742, 1755, 1761, 1766, 1787, 1792, 1794, 1795, 1800).<br> <br> Text from <u>The Family Instructor: In Three Parts; I. Relating to Fathers and Children. II. To Masters and Servants. III. To Husbands and Wives.</u> (London: Printed for Eman. Matthews, 1715). &lt;<a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/004844748.0001.001">Link to Vol. I in ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;

Writing

"But his spiritual kingdom is not of this world; the throne of grace is in heaven; his laws are from heaven, and written in the minds of all his subjects."

Huntington, William (1745-1813)

A Sermon on the Dimensions of Eternal Love

1784

3 entries in ESTC (1784, 1787, 1790).<br> <br> See <u>A Sermon on the Dimensions of Eternal Love. From Ephesians III. 18,19. By Wiliam Huntington, S.S. Minister of the Gospel at Providence Chapel, Little Titchfield-Street, Cavendish-Square, and Author of the Spiritual Sea-Voyage-The Arminian Skeleton-The Naked Bow of God-The Poor Christian’s Last Will and Testament-The Divine Poem on a Spiritual Birth-God the Guardian of the Poor, and the Bank of Faith-And the Kingdom of Heaven Taken by Prayer.</u> (London: Printed by J. Rozea, No. 91, Wardour-Street, Soho: to be sold at Providence Chapel; at Mr. Baker’s, No. 226, Oxford-Street; at Mr. Byrchmore’s, No. 63, the Corner of Wells-Street, Margaret-Street; and at Mr. Stevenson’s, Grocer, Duke-Street, Corner of Henrietta-Street, 1784). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T59268">Link to ESTC</a><br> <br> Text from <u>A Sermon on the Dimensions of Eternal Love</u>, 3rd ed. (London: Printed for E. Huntington, 1804). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=dyoLAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA1">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;

Writing

"But his spiritual kingdom is not of this world; the throne of grace is in heaven; his laws are from heaven, and written in the minds of all his subjects."

Huntington, William (1745-1813)

A Sermon on the Dimensions of Eternal Love

1784

3 entries in ESTC (1784, 1787, 1790).<br> <br> See <u>A Sermon on the Dimensions of Eternal Love. From Ephesians III. 18,19. By Wiliam Huntington, S.S. Minister of the Gospel at Providence Chapel, Little Titchfield-Street, Cavendish-Square, and Author of the Spiritual Sea-Voyage-The Arminian Skeleton-The Naked Bow of God-The Poor Christian’s Last Will and Testament-The Divine Poem on a Spiritual Birth-God the Guardian of the Poor, and the Bank of Faith-And the Kingdom of Heaven Taken by Prayer.</u> (London: Printed by J. Rozea, No. 91, Wardour-Street, Soho: to be sold at Providence Chapel; at Mr. Baker’s, No. 226, Oxford-Street; at Mr. Byrchmore’s, No. 63, the Corner of Wells-Street, Margaret-Street; and at Mr. Stevenson’s, Grocer, Duke-Street, Corner of Henrietta-Street, 1784). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T59268">Link to ESTC</a><br> <br> Text from <u>A Sermon on the Dimensions of Eternal Love</u>, 3rd ed. (London: Printed for E. Huntington, 1804). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=dyoLAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA1">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;

Writing

"Oh thou possessor of heavenly wisdom, would be this separation, this immeasurable distance from my friends, were I not able thus to delineate my heart upon paper, and to send thee daily a map of my mind."

Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)

The Citizen of the World

1762

First published in the <u>Public Ledger</u> in 1760-1761. At least 25 entries in ESTC (1762, 1769, 1774, 1775 1776, 1782, 1785, 1790, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1797, 1799, 1800).<br><br> <br><br> Text from <u>The Citizen of the World: or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the East.</u> (London: Printed for the Author; and sold by J. Newbery and W. Bristow; J. Leake and W. Frederick, Bath; B. Collins, Salisbury; and A. M. Smart and Co. Reading, 1762). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004897171.0001.001">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;

Writing::Account Book

"Traders often revise their books; to see whether every thing be neat, and accurate, and in its proper place. Students, in like manner, should often revise their knowledge, or at least the more useful branches of it; renew those impressions on the Memory, which had begun to decay through length of time"

Beattie, James (1735-1803)

Of Memory and Imagination [from Dissertations Moral and Critical]

1783

At least 2 entries in ESTC (1783).<br> <br> Beattie, James. <u>Dissertations Moral and Critical</u> (London: Printed for Strahan, Cadell, and Creech, 1783). Facsimile-Reprint: Friedrich Frommann Verlag, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, 1970. &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=xP5BAAAAYAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;

Writing::Alphabet

"To the mere novice in philosophical investigations, it will appear impossible to reduce all the variety of thinking to so simple and uniform a process; but to the same person it would also appear impossible a priori, that all the varieties of language, as spoken by all the nations in the world, mould be expressed by means of a short alphabet."

Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804)

Hartley's Theory of the Human Mind, on the Principle of the Association of Ideas; with Essays Relating to the Subject of It

1775

At least 4 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1775, 1776, 1790).<br> <br> See <u>Hartley’s Theory of the Human Mind, on the Principle of the Association of Ideas; With Essays Relating to the Subject of It. By Joseph Priestley, LL. D. F. R. S.</u> (London: Printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1775). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T141560">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;

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The Soul returns "Naked from off this Beach and perfect Blank, / To visit the New World."

Evans, Abel (1679-1737)

Pr&aelig;-existence. A Poem, In Imitation of Milton.

1714

3 entries in ESTC (1714, 1740, 1800).<br> <br> <u>Pr&aelig;-Existence. A Poem, In Imitation of Milton.</u> (London: Printed for John Clark, at the Bible and Crown in the Old Change, near St. Paul’s, 1714). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T2349">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;

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"How the weak Mind a naked Blank, receives, / The first Impression Time, or Custom gives."

Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)

The Female Fortune-Teller. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn Fields. Written by Mr. Johnson

1726

<u>The Female Fortune-Teller. A Comedy. As It Is Acted at the Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn Fields</u>. (London: Printed by W. Wilkins, 1726). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW109967869&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;

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"In this, therefore, I am forced to differ from that great Philosopher and Master of Reason, Mr. <i>Locke</i>, who denies and argues against all innate Ideas in general, and of every Kind: He supposes the Soul originally to be as a <i>rasa Tabula</i>, or Blank without any Impression, or distinguishing Character at all, which would be either nothing, or nothing that we can conceive or form any Notion or Idea of."

Morgan, Thomas (d. 1743)

Physico-theology: or, a philosophico-moral disquisition concerning human nature, free agency, moral government, and divine providence. By T. Morgan, M.D.

1741

Morgan, Thomas. <u>Physico-theology: or, a philosophico-moral disquisition concerning human nature, free agency, moral government, and divine providence. By T. Morgan, M.D</u>. London, 1741. Based on information from English Short Title Catalogue. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale Group.<BR>http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO

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Locke's "guiding Hand th'ideal Blank explores, / And opens wide the Senses' various Doors, / Thro' which the thronging Thoughts their Passage find, / In social Tribes, and stock the peopled Mind."

Jones, Henry (1721-1770)

Merit. A Poem.

1753

Only 1 entry in ESTC (1753).<br> <br> Henry Jones, <u>Merit. A Poem: Inscribed to the Right Honourable Philip Earl of Chesterfield. By Mr. Henry Jones, Author of the Earl of Essex</u> (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1753). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW116122603&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;

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"I fancy that blanks would do still better, as some authors have lately used them, merely to make up bulk, and stuff life's volume."

Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

The Platonic Wife, a Comedy.

1765

2 entries in ESTC (1765).<br> <br> <u>The Platonic Wife, a Comedy. As it is Performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By a Lady.</u> (London: Printed for W. Johnston; J. Dodsley; and T. Davies, 1765). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004792760.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;

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There are "Some, whose blank minds, no spark of <i>mercy</i> knew."

Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)

An Elegy Wrote under a Gallows. With a Preface Concerning the Nature of Elegy

1770

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"For were that mind, what some suppose, a mere <i>tabula rasa</i> upon its first coming into the world, a pure and perfect blank, without one single impression; who can deny that it would be right, that it would be humane and wise, to make, in the earliest moments, those impressions upon it, which long and careful experience hath proved to be just in themselves, and advantageous in their consequences?"

Dodd, William (1729-1777)

Sermons to young men. In three volumes. By William Dodd

1771

Dodd, William. <u>Sermons to young men. In three volumes. By William Dodd</u>, ... Vol. 1. London, 1771. 3 vols. Based on information from English Short Title Catalogue. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale Group.<BR>http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO

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The mind, "With not a character engrav'd, presents / One universal blank."

Roberts, William Hayward (d. 1791)

A Poetical Essay on the Existence of God [from Poems by Dr. Roberts of Eton College]

1774

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"The Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, who have made such a great progress in the sciences, were not actuated by supernatural causes, or any innate principles in their original formation; the mind is a mere blank, but capable of receiving such impressions as custom, education, or any other relative cause shall make upon it."

Gwynn, John (bap. 1713, d. 1786)

London and Westminster Improved, Illustrated by Plans

1776

<u>London and Westminster Improved, Illustrated by Plans. To which is prefixed, A Discourse on Publick Magnificence; with Observations on the State of Arts and Artists in this Kingdom, wherein the Study of Polite Arts is recommended as necessary to a liberal Education: Concluded by Some Proposals relative to Places not laid down in the Plans. By John Gwynn.</u> (London: Printed for the Author, 1776).<br> <br> Reading at http://18thcenturyreadingroom.blogspot.com/2006/07/item-of-day-london-and-westminster.html

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"But what will then fill up the blank of this my heart?"

Raspe, Rudolph Eric (1737-1794); Lessing, G. E. (1729-1781)

Nathan the Wise. A philosophical drama. From the German of G. E. Lessing, Late Librarian to the Duke of Brunswick. Translated into English by R. E. Raspe

1781

Writing::Blank

One may have a mind "Not yet so blank, or fashionably blind, / But now and then perhaps a feeble ray /Of distant wisdom shoots across his way."

Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Hope

1782

At least 23 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1782, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1790, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1797, 1798, 1800, 1799, 1800).<br> <br> See <u>Poems by William Cowper</u> (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1782). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T14895">Link to ESTC</a>&gt; &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004792651.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=IMcNAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br> <br> Text from <u>The Works of William Cowper</u> (London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1835-1837).<br> <br> Reading <u>The Poems of William Cowper</u>, 3 vols. ed. John D. Baird and Charles Ryskamp (Oxford: Oxford UP: 1980), I, pp. 317-336.

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One may have a mind "Not yet so blank, or fashionably blind, / But now and then perhaps a feeble ray /Of distant wisdom shoots across his way."

Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Hope

1782

At least 23 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1782, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1790, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1797, 1798, 1800, 1799, 1800).<br> <br> See <u>Poems by William Cowper</u> (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1782). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T14895">Link to ESTC</a>&gt; &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004792651.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=IMcNAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br> <br> Text from <u>The Works of William Cowper</u> (London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1835-1837).<br> <br> Reading <u>The Poems of William Cowper</u>, 3 vols. ed. John D. Baird and Charles Ryskamp (Oxford: Oxford UP: 1980), I, pp. 317-336.

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A ruined mind may be "A blank of Nature, vanish'd every thought / That Nature, Reason, that Experience taught."

Lovibond, Edward (bap. 1723, d. 1775)

Julia's Printed Letter to Lord ---.[from Poems on several occasions. By the late Edward Lovibond]

1785

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"But O! how rare benignant Virtue springs / In the blank bosom of despotic kings!"

Hayley, William (1745-1820)

An Essay on History

1780

At least 6 entries in LION, ECCO, and ESTC (1780, 1781, 1782, 1785, 1787, 1788).<br> <br> See <u>An Essay on History; in Three Epistles to Edward Gibbon, Esq. With Notes. by William Hayley, Esq.</u> (London: Printed for J. Dodsley in Pall-Mali, 1780). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004793610.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br> <br> Text from new edition of <u>Poems and Plays, by William Hayley, Esq.</u> (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1788). See also William Hayley, <u>Poems and Plays, by William Hayley, Esq.</u>, vol. 2 of 6 vols. (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1785). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW111425349&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br> <br> Found also in <u>The Poetical Library; Being a Collection of the Best Modern English Poems</u> (Leipzig: Printed for A.F. Boehme, 1787). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3324787241&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;

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"Her mind, to borrow Mr. Locke's figure, was a mere tabula rasa, a blank as to every thing beyond mortality"

Author Unknown

An Authentic Detail of Particulars Relative to the Late Duchess of Kingston

1788

At least 4 entries in the ESTC (1788, 1790).<br> <br> See <u>An Authentic Detail of Particulars Relative to the Late Duchess of Kingston.</u> A new edition. (London: Printed for G. Kearsley, at Johnson’s Head, No. 46, Fleet Street, 1788). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T93420">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;

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"According to Mr. Locke, the soul is a mere <i>rasa tabula</i>, an empty recipient, a mechanical blank."

Taylor, Thomas (1758-1835)

The Philosophical and Mathematical Commentaries of Proclus

1788

2 entries in ESTC (1788, 1792).<br> <br> <u>The Philosophical and Mathematical Commentaries of Proclus; Surnamed, Plato’s Successor, on the First Book of Euclid’s Elements. And His Life by Marinus. Translated from the Greek. With a Preliminary Dissertation on the Platonic Doctrine of Ideas, &C. by Thomas Taylor.</u> (London: Printed for the author: and sold by T. Payne and Son; B. White and Son; L. Davis; J. Robson; T. Cadell; Leigh and Co. G. Nicol; R. Faulder; and T. and J. Egerton, 1788-89). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T143303">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;

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"If female minds are uninform'd and blank, / Whom, lordly sirs! are female tongues to thank?"

Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)

Occasional Prologue to the Tragedy of Jane Shore, Represented at Lady Borrowes's, March 16, 1790. With Considerable Additions. [from A Collection of Poems on Various Subjects]

1792

Only 1 entry in ESTC (1792).<br> <br> <u>A Collection of Poems on Various Subjects, Including the Theatre, a Didactic Essay; in the Course of Which Are Pointed out, the Rocks and Shoals to Which Deluded Adventurers Are Inevitably Exposed. Ornamented With Cuts and Illustrated With Notes, Original Letters and Curious Incidental Anecdotes</u> (Dublin: Robert Marchbank, 1792). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T91647">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW112962920&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;

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"Like souls unborn and unequipp'd, / A blank, of many a passion stripp'd."

Stevenson, John Hall (1717-1785)

Epitaph upon a Living Subject

1795

Text from <u>The Works</u>, 3 vols. (London: J. Nichols, J. Debrett, T. Beckett). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW110622157&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt

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"Better the Mind no Notions had retain'd, / But still a fair Unwritten Blank remain'd; / For now, who Truth from Falshood wou'd discern; / must first disrobe the Mind, and all Unlearn."

Pomfret, John (1667-1702)

Reason: A Poem

1700

At least 8 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1700, 1720, 1726, 1735, 1746, 1758, 1773, 1779, 1794).<br> <br> John Pomfret, <u>Reason: A Poem</u> (London: J. Nutt, 1700). &lt;<a href="http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:12276717">Link to EEBO</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=C4oKQwAACAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br> <br> Poem originally discovered searching in HDIS (Poetry): see <u>Poems upon Several Occasions. By the Reverend Mr. John Pomfret. The Sixth Edition, Corrected. With some Account Of his Life and Writings. To which are added, His Remains</u> (London: Printed for D. Brown, J. Walthoe, A. Bettesworth, and E. Taylor, and J. Hooke [etc.], 1724). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=e4QUAAAAQAAJ">Link to 8th edition in Google Books</a>&gt;

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"Nature which was at first, excepting the original Taint, fair, and sincere, or as Mr. Lock says, 'a blank Sheet of Paper' capable of receiving any Characters at the Pleasure of the Writer, soon is either blurred over with Impertinence, fouled with Impurity, or improved and dignified with Impressions of Honour, Virtue and Morality."

Theobald, Lewis (1688-1744)

The Censor, No. 15

1717

3 entries in ESTC (1717).<br> <br> Text from <u>The Censor</u>, 3 vols (London: Printed for Jonas Brown, 1717), iii, 104-111. &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Xy8JAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;

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"The Brain of a Child, newly born, is <i>Charte Blanche</i>; and, as you have hinted very justly, we have no Ideas, which we are not obliged for to our Senses."

Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733)

The Fable of the Bees. Part II.

1729

Complicated publication history. At least 16 entries for <u>The Fable of the Bees</u> in ESTC (1729, 1732, 1733, 1734, 1740, 1750, 1755, 1755, 1772, 1795).<br> <br> <u>The Grumbling Hive</u> was printed as a pamphlet in 1705. 1st edition of <u>The Fable of the Bees</u> published in 1714, 2nd edition in 1723 (with additions, essays "On Charity Schools" and "Nature of Society"). Part II, first published in 1729. Kaye's text based on 6th edition of 1732.<br> <br> See <u>The Fable of the Bees. Part II. By the Author of the First.</u> (London: Printed: and sold by J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane, 1729). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T78343">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CB129250300&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br> <br> See also Bernard Mandeville, <u>The Fable of the Bees</u>, ed. F.B. Kaye, 2 vols. (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1988). Orig. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924. Reading first volume in Liberty Fund paperback; also searching online ed. &lt;<a href="http://oll.libertyfund.org/Texts/LFBooks/Mandeville0162/FableOfBees/0014-01_Bk.html#hd_lf14v1.head.037">Link to OLL</a>&gt;<br> <br> I am also working with another print edition: <u>The Fable of the Bees</u>, ed. F. B. Kaye, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957).

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"If all [the mind] had was the mere capacity to receive those items of knowledge--a passive power to do so, as indeterminate as the power of wax to receive shapes or of a blank page to receive words--it would not be the source of necessary truths"

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716)

Nouveaux Essais sur l'entendement humain [New Essays on Human Understanding]

1765

Written 1703-1705. Published by R. E. Raspe in 1765. <br> <br> See <u>Nouveaux Essais sur l'entendement humain</u> in <u>Oeuvres Philosophiques</u> (Amsterdam and Leipzig: Jean Schreuder, 1765). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=zvZaAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br> <br> Reading a modern translation: <u>New Essays on Human Understanding.</u> trans. and ed. by Peter Remnant and Jonathan Bennett. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996).

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"The first Attempt in this Philosophy is, to Clear the Mind of any Innate Ideas or Principles, and to make it a <i>Rasa Tabula</i>, or to Resemble a Piece of Blank Paper, without any Original Characters, or Inscriptions, Engraved upon it;"

Greene, Robert (c. 1678-1730)

The principles of the philosophy of the expansive and contractive forces. Or an inquiry into the principles of the modern philosophy, that is, into the several chief rational sciences, which are extant. In seven books

1727

Greene, Robert. <u>The principles of the philosophy of the expansive and contractive forces. Or an inquiry into the principles of the modern philosophy, that is, into the several chief rational sciences, which are extant. In seven books. By Robert Greene, ...</u> Cambridge, 1727. Based on information from English Short Title Catalogue. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale Group. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO

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"Your constant endeavours have been to inculcate the best principles into youthful minds, the only probable means of mending mankind; for the foundation of most of our virtues, or our vices, are laid in that season of life when we are most susceptible of impression, and when our minds, as on a sheet of white paper, any characters may be engraven."

Scott [n&eacute;e Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)

A Description of Millenium Hall, and the Country Adjacent

1762

Five entries in ESTC (1762, 1763, 1764, 1767). Second edition, corrected in 1764; third edition in 1767.<br> <br> Reading Sarah Scott, <u>A Description of Millenium Hall</u>, ed. Gary Kelly (Ontario: Broadview Literary Texts, 2001).<br> <br> See also <u>A Description of Millenium Hall, and the Country Adjacent: Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants, And such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections, as May excite in the Reader proper Sentiments of Humanity, and lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue. By A Gentleman on his Travels</u> (London: Printed for J. Newbery, 1762). &lt;<a href="http://archive.org/details/descriptionofmil00scot">Link to archive.org</a>&gt;

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"For any kind of reading, I think better than leaving a blank still blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers."

Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

1792

7 entries in ESTC (1792, 1793, 1794, 1796).<br> <br> See <u>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. by Mary Wollstonecraft.</u> (London: Printed for J. Johnson, No 72, St. Paul's Church Yard, 1792). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004903441.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br> <br> Reading Wollstonecraft, M. <u>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman</u>, Modern Library (New York: Random House, 2001). Also <u>The Vindications</u>, eds. D. L. Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf (Toronto: Broadview Press, 2001). <br> <br> See also Mary Wollstonecraft, <u>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects</u> (London: J. Johnson, 1792). &lt;<a href="http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/126">Link to OLL</a>&gt;

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"The mind of a young woman lady should be clear and unsullied, like a sheet of white paper, or her own fairer face"

Hays, Mary (1760-1843)

The Memoirs of Emma Courtney

1796

Only 1 entry in ESTC (1796).<br> <br> See <u>Memoirs of Emma Courtney. By Mary Hays.</u> 2 vols. (London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, 1796). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW109101939&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br> <br> Reading Mary Hays, <u>The Memoirs of Emma Courtney</u>. ed. Marilyn L. Brooks (Ontario: Broadview Press, 2000).

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Materialist philosophers describe "scoring Traces on the Paper Soul, / Blank, shaven white, they fill th' unfurnish'd Pate / With new Id&eacute;as, none of them innate."

Byrom, John (1692-1763)

Thoughts on the Constitution of Human Nature, as Represented in the Systems of Modern Philosophers [from Miscellaneous Poems]

1773

2 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1773).<br> <br> Text from <u>The Poems of John Byrom</u>, ed. Adolphus William Ward, 2 vols. (Manchester: Printed for The Chetham Society, 1894-1895). &lt;<a href="http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xri:lion&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:po:Z300293584:3">Link to LION</a>&gt;<br> <br> See also John Byrom, <u>Miscellaneous Poems</u>, 2 vols. (Manchester: J. Harrop, 1773), 98-100. &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T144863">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW110186143&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=HyYJAAAAQAAJ">Link to Vol. II Google Books</a>&gt;

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"There is another Set of Men that I must likewise lay a Claim to, whom I have lately called the Blanks of Society, as being altogether unfurnish'd with Ideas."

Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)

Spectator, No. 10

1711

At least 80 entries in ESTC (1711, 1712, 1713, 1714, 1715, 1716, 1717, 1718, 1720, 1721, 1723, 1724, 1726, 1729, 1733, 1734, 1735, 1737, 1738, 1744, 1745, 1747, 1748, 1749, 1750, 1753, 1754, 1755, 1756, 1756, 1757, 1761, 1763, 1765, 1766, 1767, 1769, 1771, 1776, 1778, 1785, 1788, 1789, 1781, 1793, 1797, 1799, 1800).<br> <br> By Steele, Addison, Budgell and others, <u>The Spectator</u> (London: Printed for Sam. Buckley, at the Dolphin in Little Britain; and sold by A[nn]. Baldwin in Warwick-Lane, 1711-1714). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/P1724">Link to ESTC</a>&gt; -- No. 1 (Thursday, March 1. 1711) through No. 555 (Saturday, December 6. 1712); 2nd series, No. 556 (Friday, June 18. 1714), ceased with No. 635 (20 Dec. 1714).<br> <br> Some text from <u>The Spectator</u>, 3 vols. Ed. Henry Morley (London: George Routledge, 1891). &lt;<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12030/12030-h/12030-h/12030-h.htm">Link to PGDP edition</a>&gt;<br><br> Reading in Donald Bond's edition: <u>The Spectator</u>, 5 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965).

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"If I have here touch'd a young Lady's Vanity and Levity, it was to show her how beautiful she is without those Blots, which certainly stain the Mind, and stamp Deformity where the greatest Beauties would shine, were they banish'd."

Davys, Mary (1674-1732)

The Reform'd Coquet; a Novel

1724

At least 9 entries in ESTC (1724, 1725, 1735, 1736, 1744, 1752, 1760, 1763).<br> <br> Mary Davys, <u>The Reform'd Coquet; a Novel. by Mrs. Davys, Author of the Humours of York.</u> (London: London: Printed by H. Woodfall, for the Author; and sold by J.Stephens, 1724). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CW109229140&source=gale&userGroupName=viva_uva&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=NdPWQAAACAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br> <br> Text from <u>The Works of Mrs. Davys: Consisting of, Plays, Novels, Poems, and Familiar Letters. Several of which never before Publish'd.</u> 2 vols. (London: printed by H. Woodfall, for the author and sold by J. Stevens, 1725). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=QhQUOgAACAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br> <br> Reading in <u>Popular Fiction by Women, 1660-1730</u>, eds. Paula Backscheider and John Richetti (Oxford UP, 1996).