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Animals::Reptiles

"But it is then, and basking in the sunshine of unmerited fortune, that low, sordid, ungenerous, and reptile souls swell with their hoarded poisons; it is then that they display their odious splendour, and shine out in full lustre of their native villainy and baseness."

Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)

A Letter from Mr. Burke to a Member of the National Assembly; In Answer to Some Objections to his Book on French Affairs

1791

Text copied online and cursorily corrected against Edmund Burke, <u>A Letter from Mr. Burke to a Member of the National Assembly; In Answer to Some Objections to his Book on French Affairs</u>, 3rd edition (Paris, Printed, and London, Re-printed for J. Dodsley, 1791). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=L1wPAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;

Animals::Rider

"But when a man's fancy gets astride his reason, when imagination is at cuffs with the senses, and common understanding as well as common sense, is kicked out of doors; the first proselyte he makes is himself, and when that is once compassed the difficulty is not so great in bringing over others, a strong delusion always operating from without as vigorously as from within."

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)

A Tale of a Tub

1704

43 entries in the ESTC (1704, 1705, 1710, 1711, 1724, 1726, 1727, 1733, 1734, 1739, 1741, 1742, 1743, 1747, 1750, 1751, 1752, 1753, 1754, 1756, 1760, 1762, 1766, 1768, 1769, 1771, 1772, 1776, 1781, 1784, 1798).<br> <br> Reading Jonathan Swift, <u>A Tale of a Tub and Other Works</u>, eds. Angus Ross and David Woolley. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986). Some text drawn from <a href="http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/swift/jonathan/s97t/complete.html">ebooks@Adelaide</a>.<br> <br> Note, the textual history is complicated. First published May 10, 1704. The second edition of 1704 and the fifth of 1710 include new material. Ross and Woolley's text is an eclectic one, based on the three authoritative editions.<br> <br> See <u>A Tale of a Tub. Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind. To Which Is Added, an Account of a Battel Between the Antient and Modern Books in St. James's Library</u>, 2nd edition, corrected (London: Printed for John Nutt, 1704). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T49833">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=CW115346064&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;

Animals::Rider and Bearer

"Others rather believe there is a perpetual game at <EM>leap-frog</EM> between both, and sometimes the <EM>flesh</EM> is uppermost, and sometimes the <EM>spirit</EM>; adding that the former, while it is in the state of a <EM>rider</EM>, wears huge Rippon spurs, and when it comes to the turn of being <EM>bearer</EM>, is wonderfully headstrong and hard-mouthed."

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)

A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit. In a Letter to a Friend. A Fragment

1704

More than 40 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1704, 1705, 1710, 1711, 1720, 1724, 1726, 1727, 1733, 1734, 1739, 1741, 1743, 1747, 1750, 1751, 1752, 1753, 1754, 1756, 1760, 1761, 1762, 1766, 1768, 1769, 1771, 1772, 1774, 1776, 1781, 1784, 1798).<br> <br> Reading Jonathan Swift, <u>A Tale of a Tub and Other Works</u>, eds. Angus Ross and David Woolley. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986). Some text drawn from <a href="http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/swift/jonathan/s97t/complete.html">ebooks@Adelaide</a>.<br> <br> Note, the textual history is complicated. First published May 10, 1704. The second edition of 1704 and the fifth of 1710 include new material. Ross and Woolley's text is an eclectic one, based on the three authoritative editions.<br> <br> See <u>A Tale of a Tub. Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind. To Which Is Added, an Account of a Battel Between the Antient and Modern Books in St. James's Library</u>, 2nd edition, corrected (London: Printed for John Nutt, 1704). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T49833">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;

Animals::Rumination::Cud

"To Ruminate, to chew the Cud: In a figurative Sense, to ponder seriously, to weigh in Mind, to consider, muse, or think upon."

Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

Ruminate [from The New World of Words]

1706

At least 6 entries in ESTC (1658, 1662, 1663, 1678, 1706, 1720).<br> <br> See Edward Phillips, <u>The New World of English Words: or, a General Dictionary: Containing the Interpretations of Such Hard Words As Are Derived from Other Languages; Whether Hebrew, Arabick, Syriack, Greek, Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, British, Dutch, Saxon, &c.</u> (London: Printed by E. Tyler, for Nath. Brooke at the sign of the Angel in Cornhill, 1658). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/R14781">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br> <br> Text from <u>The New World of Words: or, Universal English Dictionary. Containing an Account of the Original or Proper Sense, and Various Significations of All Hard Words Derived from Other Languages</u> 6th ed., revised, corrected, and improved (London: Printed for J. Phillips, at the King’s-Arms in S. Paul's Church-Yard; H. Rhodes at the Star, the Corner of Bride-Lane, in Fleet-Street; and J. Taylor, at the Ship in S. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1706). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T101516">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;

Animals::Serpent

"In his soul was the serpent coil'd round in his heart, hid from the light, as in a cleft rock"

Blake, William (1757-1827)

The French Revolution. A Poem, in Seven Books

1791

Animals::Serpent

"And hence one Master Passion in the breast, / Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest."

Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

An Essay on Man; or The First Book of Ethic Epistles to H. St. John L. Bolingbroke

1734

Over 165 entries in ESTC (1733, 1734, 1735, 1736, 1743, 1744, 1745, 1746, 1747, 1748, 1749, 1750, 1751, 1753, 1754, 1755, 1756, 1758, 1760, 1761, 1762, 1763, 1764, 1766, 1767, 1768, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1774, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1780, 1781, 1783, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798, 1799, 1800).<br> <br> See <u>An Essay on Man, Being the First Book of Ethic epistles. To Henry St. John, L. Bolingbroke.</u> (London: Printed by John Wright, for Lawton Gilliver, 1734). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T222362">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T202704">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T5607">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004809206.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br> <br> See also <u>An Essay on Man: In Epistles to a Friend.</u> (Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for George Risk, George Ewing, and William Smith, 1734). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004826394.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br> <br> Reading <u>The Poems of Alexander Pope</u>. A One-Volume Edition of the Twickenham Text with Selected Annotations, ed. John Butt. (New Haven: Yale UP, 1963).

Animals::Serpent

"On his one ruling passion Sir Pope hugely labors, / That, like th'old Hebrew walking-switch, eats up its neighbours."

Burns, Robert (1759-1796)

Sketch in Verse: Inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox

1789

Found in <u>The Works of Robert Burns; With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings. To Which Are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry. In Four Volumes.</u> (Liverpool: Printed by J. M'Creery, Houghton-Street; for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, Strand, London; and W. Greech, Edinburgh. Sold also by Bell and Bradfute, P. Hill, and Manners and Miller, Edinburgh; Brash and Reid, and J. Murdoch, Glasgow; J. Brown, Aberdeen; W. Boyd, Dumfries; J. Morrison, Perth; J. Forsyth, Ayr; and by Merritt and Wright, W. Robinson, W. Harding, and E. Rushton, Liverpool, 1800), vol. 2 of 4. &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CB128515985&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;

Animals::Serpent

"If I, he may thus argue, who exercise my own mind, and have been refined by tribulation, find the serpent's egg in some fold of my heart, and crush it with difficulty, shall I not pity those who have stamped with less vigour, or who have heedlessly nurtured the insidious reptile till it poisoned the vital stream it sucked?"

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;

Animals::Serpent

"It is sufficient for our present purpose, if it be allowed, what surely, without the greatest absurdity, cannot be disputed, that there is some benevolence, however small, infused into our bosom; some spark of friendship for human kind; some particle of the dove, kneaded into our frame, along with the elements of the wolf and serpent."

Hume, David (1711-1776)

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

1751

Working from Nidditch's census and confirming 3 entries through the ESTC (1751, 1753, 1760, 1764, 1767, 1768, 1770, 1772, 1777).<br> <br> First published as <u>An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals. By David Hume, Esq</u> (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1751). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW119331113&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004806387.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br> <br> Text from David Hume, <u>Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals</u>. ed. L. A. Selby-Bigge, rev. ed. P. H. Nidditch (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1975).

Animals::Serpents

The "busy Statesman's mind" may grow putrid on the throne of power so that "Fresh vices spring up ev'ry hour; / As in dead corses serpents breed, / And loathsome, on corruption feed"

Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)

Fortune. A Rhapsody [from A Collection of Original Poems]

1755

See <u>A Collection of Original Poems. By Samuel Derrick.</u> (London: Printed for the Author; and sold by A. Millar, in the Strand, 1755). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW112227272&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;

Animals::Sheep

"I have seen a very ingenious Author on this Subject, who founds his Speculations on the Supposition, That as a Man hath in the Mould of his Face a remote Likeness to that of an Ox, a Sheep, a Lion, an Hog, or any other Creature; he hath the same Resemblance in the Frame of his Mind, and is subject to those Passions which are predominant in the Creature that appears in his Countenance."

Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)

Spectator, No. 86

1711

See Donald Bond's edition: <u>The Spectator</u>, 5 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965).

Animals::Silver Fishes

"My Thoughts should like their Silver Fishes shine, / With quick, bright glitterings thro' each moving line."

Hopkins, John (b. 1675)

To Amasia, on the falling of her Terra-Walks. [from Amasia]

1700

Only 1 entry in ESTC (1700).<br> <br> <u>Amasia, or, The Works of the Muses. A Collection of Poems. In Three Volumes. By Mr. John Hopkins.</u> (London: Printed by Tho. Warren, 1700). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/R24989">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:8712672">Link to EEBO</a>&gt;

Animals::Snake

"Can I not rouze the Snake that's in his Bosom, / To Sting out human Nature, and effect it?"

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

The Revenge: A Tragedy

1721

First performed April 18, 1721. Over 39 entries in the ESTC (1721, 1722, 1726, 1733, 1735, 1749, 1752, 1754, 1755, 1760, 1764, 1768, 1769,1774, 1775, 1776, 1777, 1779, 1780, 1780, 1788, 1789, 1792, 1793, 1794).<br> <br> See <u>The Revenge: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By His Majesty's Servants. By E. Young.</u> (London: Printed for W. Chetwood and S. Chapman, 1721). &lt;<a ref="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW109752151&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;

Animals::Snake::Adders

"What glittering adders lurk to sting the mind!"

Richardson, Joseph (1755-1803)

Extracts from the album, at Streatham; or ministerial amusements. To which are added, The bulse, a Pindaric ode: and Jekyll, an eclogue

1788

Animals::Snake::Serpent

"Thou, who, for noble faults like these, too cold, / Whose vices n'er aspire, but stoop to gold, / That groveling passion of the sordid breast, / Like Aaron's serpent swallowing up the rest."

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

Humanity, or the Rights of Nature, a Poem

1788

At least 7 entries in ESTC (1788, 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798, 1800).<br> <br> Samuel Jackson Pratt, <u>Humanity, or the Rights of Nature, a Poem; in Two Books. By the Author of Sympathy</u> (London: T. Cadell, 1788). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T36737">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CW113771078&source=gale&userGroupName=viva_uva&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br> <br> Added to <u>Gleanings through Wales, Holland and Westphalia</u> (1795, 1796, 1798, 1800).

Animals::Snake::Viper

"'From forth thy Bosom turn the Viper-Guest, / 'Or, e'er he bite thee, crush him at thy Breast"

Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)

Protestant Popery: or, The Convocation. A Poem.

1718

2 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1718, 1720).<br> <br> Text from <u>Protestant Popery: or, The Convocation. A Poem. In Five Cantos. Address’d to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Bangor.</u> (London: Printed for E. Curll in Fleetstreet, 1718). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T18318">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br> <br> See also <u>Poems on Several Occasions. To Which Is Added, a Letter to Mr. Law. By a Student of Oxford.</u> (London: Printed for E. Curll, in Fleet-Street, 1720). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/N34624">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;

Animals::Snake::Viper

"No man has ever been drawn to crimes by love or jealousy, envy or hatred, but he can tell how easily he might at first have repelled the temptation, how readily his mind would have obeyed a call to any other object, and how weak his passion has been after some casual avocation, till he has recalled it again to his heart, and revived the viper by too warm a fondness."

Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)

Rambler, No. 8

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;

Animals::Snakes::Serpent

"Tho' the soft dove brood, gall-less, o'er your breast, / Yet let the wary serpent arm your mind."

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.

Animals::Snakes::Serpents

"This is the true nature of the human mind; the greater evil always swallowing up the lesser, as the rod of Moses did the other serpents."

Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

The Morality of Shakespeare's Drama Illustrated

1775

3 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1775, 1777).<br> <br> Text from <u>The Morality of Shakespeare's Drama Illustrated: By Mrs. Griffith</u>. (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1775). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004885264.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;

Animals::Snakes::Serpents

"This is the true nature of the human mind; the greater evil always swallowing up the lesser, as the rod of Moses did the other serpents."

Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

The Morality of Shakespeare's Drama Illustrated

1775

3 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1775, 1777).<br> <br> Text from <u>The Morality of Shakespeare's Drama Illustrated: By Mrs. Griffith</u>. (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1775). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004885264.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;

Animals::Snakes::Vipers

Mr Clark "Conquer'd those Vipers in his Conscience bred, / And with himself, shot all the stinging Fantoms dead"

Ward, Edward (1667-1731)

On the Death of Mr Clark, Organist at St Pauls. Who Lately Shot Himself. An Ode.

1707

2 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1707, 1709).<br> <br> See <u>The Diverting Muse, or, The Universal Medly.</u> (London: Printed and Sold by B. Bragge, 1707), 211-6. &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3314079230&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br> <br> Text from <u>The Fourth Volume of the Writings Of the Author of the London-Spy. Prose and Verse</u> (London: Printed for George Sawbridge, 1709).

Animals::Snares

The mind may slumber sweetly in vice's snares, her "polish'd neck" bent beneath tyranny's "usurp'd command"

Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Table Talk

1782

At least 24 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1782, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1790, 1792, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1798, 1799, 1800).<br> <br> See <u>Poems by William Cowper</u> (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1782). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=IMcNAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</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. 241-261.

Animals::Snares

The mind may slumber sweetly in vice's snares, her "polish'd neck" bent beneath tyranny's "usurp'd command"

Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Table Talk

1782

At least 24 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1782, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1790, 1792, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1798, 1799, 1800).<br> <br> See <u>Poems by William Cowper</u> (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1782). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=IMcNAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</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. 241-261.

Animals::Spider

"He that wants the proper materials of thought, may think and meditate for ever to no purpose: those cobwebs spun by scholars out of their own brains being alike unserviceable, either for use or ornament."

Berkeley, George (1685-1753)

Alciphron: or the Minute Philosopher

1732

At least 9 entries in ESTC (1732, 1752, 1755, 1757, 1767).<br> <br> <u>Alciphron: or, the Minute Philosopher. In Seven Dialogues. Containing an Apology for the Christian Religion, Against Those Who Are Called Free-Thinkers.</u> (Dublin: Printed for G. Risk, G. Ewing, and W. Smith, 1732). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004854093.0001.001">Link to Vol. I in ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004854093.0001.002">Vol. II</a>&gt;<br> <br> See also <u>Alciphron: or the Minute Philosopher</u> (London: J. Tonson, 1732). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=CCIJAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br> <br>

Animals::Spider::Cobwebs

"There is no snare more dangerous to busy and excursive minds, than the cobwebs of petty inquisitiveness, which entangle them in trivial employments and minute studies, and detain them in a middle state, between the tediousness of total inactivity, and the fatigue of laborious efforts, enchant them at once with ease and novelty, and vitiate them with the luxury of learning."

Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)

Rambler, No. 103

1751

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;

Animals::Spider::Web

"But here the mind has all the evidence and facts within herself;--is conscious of the web she has wove;--knows its texture and fineness, and the exact share which every passion has had in working upon the several designs which virtue or vice has plann'd before her."

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).

Animals::Spider::Web

Reveries are "flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought" and don't attain "to the dignity of thought"

Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Retirement

1782

At least 24 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1782, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1790, 1792, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1798, 1799, 1800).<br> <br> See <u>Poems by William Cowper</u> (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1782). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=IMcNAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</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. 378-398.

Animals::Spider::Web

Reveries are "flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought" and don't attain "to the dignity of thought"

Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Retirement

1782

At least 24 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1782, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1790, 1792, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1798, 1799, 1800).<br> <br> See <u>Poems by William Cowper</u> (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1782). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=IMcNAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</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. 378-398.

Animals::Spider::Web

"Or, spider-like, spin out our precious all, / Our more than vitals spin (if no regard / To great futurity) in curious webs / Of subtle thought, and exquisite design, / (Fine net-work of the brain!) to catch a fly, / The momentary buzz of vain renown, / A name, a mortal immortality?"

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

Night the Sixth. The Infidel Reclaim'd. In Two Parts. [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 Sixth. The Infidel Reclaim'd. In Two Parts. Containing, The Nature, Proof, and Importance of Immortality. Part the First. Where, among other things, Glory, and Riches, are particularly consider'd. Humbly Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable Henry Pelham, First Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, and Chancellor of the Exchequer</u>. (London: R. Dodsley, 1744). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW117103376&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</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;<br> <br> Reading Edward Young, <u>Night Thoughts</u>, ed. Stephen Cornford (New York: Cambridge UP, 1989).

Animals::Spur and Bridle

"And whereas the mind of man, when he gives the spur and bridle to his thoughts, does never stop, but naturally sallies out into both extremes of high and low, of good and evil, his first flight of fancy commonly transports him to ideas of what is most perfect, finished, and exalted, till, having soared out of his own reach and sight, not well perceiving how near the frontiers of height and depth border upon each other, with the same course and wing he falls down plump into the lowest bottom of things, like one who travels the east into the west, or like a straight line drawn by its own length into a circle."

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)

A Tale of a Tub

1704

43 entries in the ESTC (1704, 1705, 1710, 1711, 1724, 1726, 1727, 1733, 1734, 1739, 1741, 1742, 1743, 1747, 1750, 1751, 1752, 1753, 1754, 1756, 1760, 1762, 1766, 1768, 1769, 1771, 1772, 1776, 1781, 1784, 1798).<br> <br> Reading Jonathan Swift, <u>A Tale of a Tub and Other Works</u>, eds. Angus Ross and David Woolley. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986). Some text drawn from <a href="http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/swift/jonathan/s97t/complete.html">ebooks@Adelaide</a>.<br> <br> Note, the textual history is complicated. First published May 10, 1704. The second edition of 1704 and the fifth of 1710 include new material. Ross and Woolley's text is an eclectic one, based on the three authoritative editions.<br> <br> See <u>A Tale of a Tub. Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind. To Which Is Added, an Account of a Battel Between the Antient and Modern Books in St. James's Library</u>, 2nd edition, corrected (London: Printed for John Nutt, 1704). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T49833">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=CW115346064&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;

Animals::Spurs

"To one genius it is necessary to give wings, and to another shackles; one should be spurred forward, another reined in; one should be encouraged, another intimidated; sometimes it should be checked, and at others assisted."

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778); Kenrick, William (1729/30–1779)

Eloisa: Or, a Series of Original Letters [La Nouvelle Héloïse]

1761

At least ten entries in the ESTC (1761, 1764, 1767, 1769, 1776, 1784, 1795).<br> <br> Text from <u>Eloisa: Or, a Series of Original Letters Collected and Published by J.J. Rousseau. Translated from the French.</u> 4 vols. (London: Printed for R. Griffiths and T. Becket, 1761). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=XQBEAAAAYAAJ">Link to Vol. I</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=kgBEAAAAYAAJ">Link to Vol. II</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=twBEAAAAYAAJ">Link to Vol. III</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=2ABEAAAAYAAJ">Link to Vol. IV</a>&gt;

Animals::Stag

"But this consuming flame arises first in its own breast; and, let him roam where he will, such a man, like the poor wounded stag, still carries the arrow sticking in his heart; or rather like a mad dog, enraged with his own misery, endeavours to bite and poison, with his own venomous foam, every object in his reach."

Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)

The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable

1754

2 entries in ESTC (1754).<br> <br> See Fielding, Sarah and Jane Collier, <u>The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable</u>, 3 vols. (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall Mall, 1754). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T141110">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;

Animals::Steed

"My lord, this seems th' extravagance of passion! / When anger rushes, unrestrain'd, to action, / Like a hot steed, it stumbles in its way!"

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.

Animals::Sting

"Shall not conscience rise up and sting him on such occasions?"

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).

Animals::Sting

"Affronted Reason stings us with Remorse, / Suggests the Danger and obstructs our Course."

Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

Youth in Danger. To Menalcas. [from A Collection of Poems on Various Subjects. By Sir Richard Blackmore]

1718

Only 1 entry in ESTC and ECCO (1718).<br> <br> Richard Blackmore, <u>A Collection of Poems on Various Subjects. By Sir Richard Blackmore, Kt. M. D. Fellow of the Royal-College of Physicians.</u> (London: Printed by W. Wilkins, for Jonas Browne and J. Walthoe, 1718). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW113338061&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;

Animals::Sting

"That dreadful Worm may long enchanted lie, / And roll'd in Volumes sleep, but cannot die; / Rousing at Times, indignant 'twill exert / Immortal Rage, and sting you to the Heart."

Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

Youth in Danger. To Menalcas. [from A Collection of Poems on Various Subjects. By Sir Richard Blackmore]

1718

Only 1 entry in ESTC and ECCO (1718).<br> <br> Richard Blackmore, <u>A Collection of Poems on Various Subjects. By Sir Richard Blackmore, Kt. M. D. Fellow of the Royal-College of Physicians.</u> (London: Printed by W. Wilkins, for Jonas Browne and J. Walthoe, 1718). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW113338061&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;

Animals::Sting

"His face is ever before my eyes, and his voice still sounding in my ear; for, as the comic poet says, he left a sting in the minds of his hearers."

Francklin, Thomas (1721-1784); Lucian (b.c. 125, d. after 180)

Nigrinus, A Dialogue. [from The Works of Lucian]

1780

3 entries in ESTC (1780, 1781). See also <u>Select Dialogues</u> (1785). Translations of select dialogues date from 1634.<br> <br> Text from <u>The Works of Lucian, from the Greek, by Thomas Francklin, D. D. Some Time Greek Professor in the University of Cambridge.</u> (London: Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1780). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T112683">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=OaLc_9I-gvAC">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;

Animals::Swarm

"Nothing is dead; nay, nothing sleeps; each soul / That ever animated human clay / Now wakes, is on the wing; and where, O where, / Will the swarm settle?"

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).

Animals::Swarm

"When all at once / A thousand anxious Thoughts that slept by Day, / Swarm'd in my Brain, 'till it resembled Hell, / Hot, dark and hot: my sick Imagination, / Assisted by the Shades of Night, would give / A gloomy turn to each Idea there."

Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)

Edwin: A Tragedy

1724

Only 1 entry in ESTC (1724).<br> <br> <u>Edwin: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. By Geo. Jeffreys.</u> (London: Printed, and Sold by T. Woodward, J.Walthoe, J.Peele, and T.Wood, 1724). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T32447">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=jJgNAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;

Animals::Tame

"Repeated Prostitutions conquer Shame, / Assure the Face, and struggling Reason tame."

Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

Youth in Danger. To Menalcas. [from A Collection of Poems on Various Subjects. By Sir Richard Blackmore]

1718

Only 1 entry in ESTC and ECCO (1718).<br> <br> Richard Blackmore, <u>A Collection of Poems on Various Subjects. By Sir Richard Blackmore, Kt. M. D. Fellow of the Royal-College of Physicians.</u> (London: Printed by W. Wilkins, for Jonas Browne and J. Walthoe, 1718). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW113338061&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;

Animals::Taming

"But as it was not sufficient for the Legislators of the Greeks only to understand Philosophy, but also to put it in Practice; so it was his Pleasure to profess the Precepts of the Stoicks, and particularly that of taming his Passions, before he wou'd sit at the Helm to prescribe Rules of Government."

Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)

The Secret History of Queen Zarah

1705

At least 15 entries in the ESTC (1705, 1708, 1711, 1712, 1713, 1743, 1745, 1749).<br> <br> Joseph Browne [ascribed to Delariviere Manley], <u>The Secret History of Queen Zarah, and the Zarazians; Being a Looking-glass for In the Kingdom of Albigion. Faithfully Translated from the Italian Copy now lodg'd in the Vatican at Rome and never before Printed in any Language</u> (Albigion [i.e. London]: Printed in the year 1705). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CB130263829&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;

Animals::Teeth and Claws

"For, it is the opinion of choice <EM>virtuosi</EM>, that the brain is only a crowd of little animals, but with teeth and claws extremely sharp, and therefore cling together in the contexture we behold, like the picture of Hobbes's <EM>Leviathan</EM>, or like bees in perpendicular swarm upon a tree, or like a carrion corrupted into vermin, still preserving the shape and figure of the mother animal; that all invention is formed by the morsure of two or more of these animals, upon certain capillary nerves, which proceed from thence, whereof three branches spread into the tongue, and two into the right hand."

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)

A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit. In a Letter to a Friend. A Fragment

1704

More than 40 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1704, 1705, 1710, 1711, 1720, 1724, 1726, 1727, 1733, 1734, 1739, 1741, 1743, 1747, 1750, 1751, 1752, 1753, 1754, 1756, 1760, 1761, 1762, 1766, 1768, 1769, 1771, 1772, 1774, 1776, 1781, 1784, 1798).<br> <br> Reading Jonathan Swift, <u>A Tale of a Tub and Other Works</u>, eds. Angus Ross and David Woolley. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986). Some text drawn from <a href="http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/swift/jonathan/s97t/complete.html">ebooks@Adelaide</a>.<br> <br> Note, the textual history is complicated. First published May 10, 1704. The second edition of 1704 and the fifth of 1710 include new material. Ross and Woolley's text is an eclectic one, based on the three authoritative editions.<br> <br> See <u>A Tale of a Tub. Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind. To Which Is Added, an Account of a Battel Between the Antient and Modern Books in St. James's Library</u>, 2nd edition, corrected (London: Printed for John Nutt, 1704). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T49833">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;

Animals::Tiger

"Where is the heart, to grateful feelings sear'd, / The breast, against each soft sensation steel'd, / Hard as the tyger's, in wild deserts rear'd"

Stevenson, William (1730-1783)

Written in an Arbour at the foot of a Garden. Time, Morning. [from Original Poems on Several Subjects]

1765

At least 2 entries in ESTC (1765).<br> <br> <u>Original Poems on Several Subjects. In Two Volumes. By William Stevenson</u> (Edinburgh: Printed by A. Donaldson and J. Reid. Sold by Alexander Donaldson, in London and Edinburgh, 1765). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T155132">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;

Animals::Tiger

"Thus a lively Imagination and unperceived Self-Love, fetter the Heart in certain ideal Bonds of their own creating: Till at length some turbulent and furious Passion arising in its Strength, breaks these fantastic Shackles which Fancy had imposed, and leaps to its Prey like a Tyger chained by Cobwebs."

Brown, John (1715-1766)

Essays on the Characteristics

1751

John Brown, <u>Essays on the Characteristics</u>, 2nd ed. (London: C. Davis, 1751)

Animals::Tigress

"If you now refuse, you have the heart of a tygress, and delight in the misery of others."

Brooke [n&eacute;e Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)

The History of Lady Julia Mandeville

1763

At least 10 entries in the ESTC (1763, 1765, 1767, 1769, 1773, 1775, 1782, 1788). [4th edition in 1765, 5th edition in 1769.]<br> <br> See Frances Brooke, <u>The History of Lady Julia Mandeville. In Two Volumes. By the Translator of Lady Catesby's Letters.</u> (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004839949.0001.002 ">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3311249668&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;

Animals::Torpedo

"The man has been changed into an artificial monster by the station in which he was born, and the consequent homage that benumbed his faculties like the torpedo’s touch."

Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)

A Vindication of the Rights of Men in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

1790

First edition appears in December of 1790. Second edition, with MW's name on the cover, published December 14. 2 entries in ESTC (1790).<br> <br> Reading <u>The Vindications</u>. eds. D. L. Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf. (Toronto: Broadview Press, 2001). [Based on the 2nd ed.] See also edition at the Online Library of Liberty &lt;<a href="http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/991 on 2009-12-02">Link to OLL</a>&gt;.

Animals::Tortoise

"The heart of a physician should be in full steel and armour, like the body of a tortoise"

Ludger, Conrad (b. 1748)

The Reconciliation: A Comedy.

1799

4 entries in the ESTC (1799, 1800).<br> <br> See <u>The Reconciliation: A Comedy, in Five Acts. Now under Representation at the Theatre Royal, Vienna, with unbounded Applause. Translated from the German of Augustus von Kotzebue.</u> (London: Printed for James Ridgeway, 1799). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW113384132&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;

Animals::Trammel

A Logician is "one, that has been broke / To Ride and Pace his Reason by the Booke, And by their Rules, and Precepts, and Examples, / To put his wits into a kind of Trammells."

Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)

[Untitled poem from Miscellaneous Thoughts]

1759

Text from <u>Satires and Miscellaneous Poetry and Prose</u>, ed. René Lamar (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1928).<br> <br> See "Miscellaneous Thoughts" in vol. I of <u>The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler</u> (London: J. and R. Tonson, 1759): 266. &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T139233">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=CW3311003193&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br> <br> Lamar titles the poem "Virtuoso" and refers it to the "Poetical Thesaurus;" the title-term is found in Thyer's <u>Genuine Remains</u> and adopted by Lamar. The verses cited are an untitled poem from "Miscellaneous Thoughts" in Tonson's edition and elsewhere, though the "Virtuoso" version may derive from manuscript sources--sadly--unspecified in Lamar. (See <u>Satires and Miscellaneous Poetry and Prose by Samuel Butler</u>, René Lamar: Review by J. H. Lobban, <u>The Modern Language Review</u>, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Jul., 1929), pp. 352-355.)<br> <br> Bibliographical description contributed by James Ascher.

Animals::Venom

"So bounded are its haughty lord's delights / To Woe's wide empire; where deep troubles toss, / Loud sorrows howl, envenom'd passions bite, / Ravenous calamities our vitals seize, / And threatening fate wide opens to devour."

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).

Animals::Venom

"But thro' the Heart / Should Jealousy it's Venom once diffuse, / 'Tis then delightful Misery no more, / But Agony unmixt, incessant Rage, / Corroding every Thought, and blasting all / The Paradise of Love."

Thomson, James (1700-1748)

Spring. A Poem. By Mr. Thomson

1728

Text sourced from Oxford Text Archive at <a href="http://ota.ox.ac.uk/id/4109">http://ota.ox.ac.uk/id/4109</a>.<br> <br> Poem first published <u>Spring. A Poem. By Mr. Thomson</u> (London: Printed and sold by A. Millar, at Buchanan's Head over-against St. Clement's Church in the Strand; and G. Strahan, at the Golden Ball in Cornhill, 1728). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW112954030&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br> <br> Text revised and expanded between 1728 and 1746. Searching text from <u>The Poetical Works</u> (1830), 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> <br> 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;

Animals::Venom

"For the fair Peace, / The tender Joys of Hymeneal Love, / May Jealousy awak'd, and fell Remorse, / Pour all their fiercest Venom thro' his Breast!"

Thomson, James (1700-1748)

Tancred and Sigismunda. A Tragedy

1745

At least 29 entries in ESTC (1745, 1748, 1749, 1752, 1755, 1758, 1759, 1761, 1764, 1766, 1767, 1768, 1770, 1774, 1775, 1776, 1777, 1779, 1784, 1787, 1790, 1792). [Robert Hume lists among the "few considerable new plays mounted" between 1737 and 1760.]<br> <br> See <u>Tancred and Sigismunda. A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal In Drury-Lane, By His Majesty's Servants. By James Thomson</u> (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1745). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW106677155&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;

Animals::Venom

"I've known a follower's rankled bosom breed / Venom most fatal to his heedless Lord."

Home, John (1722-1808)

Douglas: A Tragedy

1757

At least 10 entries in ESTC (1757, 1764, 1768, 769, 1770, 1773, 1775).<br><br> <u>Douglas: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden</u> (Edinburgh: Printed for G. Hamilton, 1757). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T163010">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;

Animals::Venom

"Close, like a Dragon folded in his Den, / Some secret Venom preys upon his Heart."

Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)

The Tragedy Of The Lady Jane Gray.

1715

First performed April 20, 1715. 33 entries in the ESTC (1715, 1717, 1718, 1719, 1720, 1727, 1730, 1733, 1735, 1736, 1740, 1744, 1748, 1750, 1754, 1755, 1761, 1764, 1771, 1774, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1782, 1791)<br> <br> See <u>The Tragedy Of The Lady Jane Gray. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By N. Rowe</u> (London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1715). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW112882512&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;

Animals::Vermin

"For, it is the opinion of choice <EM>virtuosi</EM>, that the brain is only a crowd of little animals, but with teeth and claws extremely sharp, and therefore cling together in the contexture we behold, like the picture of Hobbes's <EM>Leviathan</EM>, or like bees in perpendicular swarm upon a tree, or like a carrion corrupted into vermin, still preserving the shape and figure of the mother animal; that all invention is formed by the morsure of two or more of these animals, upon certain capillary nerves, which proceed from thence, whereof three branches spread into the tongue, and two into the right hand."

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)

A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit. In a Letter to a Friend. A Fragment

1704

More than 40 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1704, 1705, 1710, 1711, 1720, 1724, 1726, 1727, 1733, 1734, 1739, 1741, 1743, 1747, 1750, 1751, 1752, 1753, 1754, 1756, 1760, 1761, 1762, 1766, 1768, 1769, 1771, 1772, 1774, 1776, 1781, 1784, 1798).<br> <br> Reading Jonathan Swift, <u>A Tale of a Tub and Other Works</u>, eds. Angus Ross and David Woolley. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986). Some text drawn from <a href="http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/swift/jonathan/s97t/complete.html">ebooks@Adelaide</a>.<br> <br> Note, the textual history is complicated. First published May 10, 1704. The second edition of 1704 and the fifth of 1710 include new material. Ross and Woolley's text is an eclectic one, based on the three authoritative editions.<br> <br> See <u>A Tale of a Tub. Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind. To Which Is Added, an Account of a Battel Between the Antient and Modern Books in St. James's Library</u>, 2nd edition, corrected (London: Printed for John Nutt, 1704). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T49833">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;

Animals::Viper

"Why should you study to conceal or excuse it, and fondly cherish that viper in your bosom?"

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;

Animals::Viper

"Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who, while he was chill, was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison."

Boswell, James (1740-1795)

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

1791

5 entries in ESTC (1791, 1792, 1793, 1799).<br> <br> See <u>The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations With Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published. The Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, During Which He Flourished. In Two Volumes. By James Boswell, Esq.</u> 2 vols. (London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, 1791). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T64481">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004839390.0001.001">Vol. I in ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/004839390.0001.002">Vol. II</a>&gt;<br> <br> My main reading text is James Boswell, <u>The Life of Johnson</u>, ed. Claude Rawson, (New York: Knopf, 1992). Also reading in David Womersley's Penguin edition, 2008.<br> <br> First edition in Google Books, &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=P-INAAAAQAAJ">Vol. I</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=0OINAAAAQAAJ">Vol. II</a>&gt;. See also Jack Lynch's online e-text, prepared from the 1904 Oxford edition &lt;<a href="http://ethnicity.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/BLJ/front.html">Link</a>&gt;.

Animals::Vulture

"My favours shall deface the memory / Of past afflictions: on a soul secure / In native innocence, or grief or joy / Shou'd make no deeper prints than air retains; / Where fleet alike the vulture and the dove, / And leave no trace."

Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)

Mariamne. A Tragedy.

1723

First performed February 22, 1723. Over 16 entries in the ESTC (1723, 1726, 1728, 1735, 1745, 1759, 1760, 1768, 1774, 1777, 1781, 1794).<br> <br> <u>Mariamne. A Tragedy. Acted at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Written by Mr. Fenton</u> (London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1723). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW109752228&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;

Animals::Web

"Like caterpillars dangling under trees / By slender threads, and swinging in the breeze, / Which filthily bewray and sore disgrace / The boughs in which are bred the unseemly race, / While every worm industriously weaves / And winds his web about the rivell'd leaves; / So numerous are the follies that annoy / The mind and heart of every sprightly boy, / Imaginations noxious and perverse, / Which admonition can alone disperse."

Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Tirocinium: or, A Review of Schools.

1786

At least 6 entries in the ESTC (1786, 1787, 1788, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1798, 1799, 1800).<br> <br> See <u>Poems, by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq. Volume the Second. Containing the Task. An Epistle to Joseph Hill, Esq. Tirocinium, or a Review of Schools. And the History of John Gilpin.</u> 2nd ed. (London: Printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1786). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T14892">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br> <br> Reading <u>The Poems of William Cowper</u>, eds. John D. Baird and Charles Ryskamp (Oxford: Oxford UP: 1980), vol. 2 of 3.

Animals::Whelp

"Beneath what baleful planet, in what hour / Of desperation, by what Fury's aid, / In what infernal posture of the soul, / All hell invited, and all hell in joy / At such a birth, a birth so near of kin, / Did thy foul fancy whelp so black a scheme / Of hopes abortive, faculties half-blown, / And deities begun, reduced to dust?"

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).

Animals::Wing

"To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination out upon the wing, is often the sport of those who delight too much in silent speculation."

Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)

[Rasselas] The Prince of Abissinia. A Tale in Two Volumes

1759

At least 37 entries in the ESTC (1759, 1760, 1766, 1768, 1775, 1777, 1783, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1798, 1799, 1800).<br> <br> See <u>The Prince of Abissinia. A Tale. In Two Volumes.</u> (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley; and W. Johnston, 1759). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T139510">Link to ESTC</a>&gt; &lt;<a href="http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/rasselas.html">Link to Jack Lynch's online edition</a>&gt;<br> <br> Reading <u>The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia</u>, ed. Thomas Keymer (Oxford: OUP, 2009).

Animals::Wing

"Tho' gratitude were bless'd with all the pow'rs / Her bursting heart cou'd long for, tho' the swift, / The firey-wing'd imagination soar'd / Beyond ambition's wish--yet all were vain / To speak him as he is, who is INEFFABLE."

Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)

On the Eternity of the Supreme Being

1750

3 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1750, 1752, 1756, 1791).<br> <br> Text from <u>The Poems of the Late Christopher Smart ... Consisting of His Prize Poems, Odes, Sonnets, and Fables, Latin and English Translations: Together With Many Original Compositions, Not Included in the Quarto Edition. To Which Is Prefixed, an Account of His Life and Writings, Never Before Published.</u> 2 vols. (London: Printed and Sold by Smart and Cowslade; and sold by F. Power and Co., 1791).<br> <br> See <u>On the Eternity of the Supreme Being. A Poetical Essay. by Christopher Smart, M. a. Fellow of Pembroke-Hall in the University of Cambridge.</u> (Cambridge : printed by J. Bentham Printer to the University. Sold by W. Thurlbourn in Cambridge, C. Bathurst in Fleet-Street, R. Dodsley at Tully’s Head in Pall-Mall, London; and J. Hildyard at York, 1750). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T43247">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br> <br> Reading in Katrina Williamson and Marcus Walsh, eds., <u>Christopher Smart: Selected Poems</u> (New York: Penguin Books, 1990).

Animals::Wing

"Or, greatly daring in his Country's cause, / Whose heaven-taught soul the aweful plan design'd, / Whence Power stood trembling at the voice of Laws, / Whence soar'd on Freedom's wing th'ethereal mind."

Beattie, James (1735-1803)

The Judgment of Paris. A Poem

1765

Beattie, James. <u>The Judgment of Paris. A Poem</u>. (London and Edinburgh: T. Becket, P. A. De Hondt, and J. Balfour, 1765). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T5376">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CW110261927&source=gale&userGroupName=viva_uva&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECOO</a>&gt;

Animals::Wing

"My imagination without wing or broom stick off mounts aloft, rises into ye Regions of pure space, and without lett or impediment bears me to your fireside, where you can set me in your easy chair, and we talk and reason, as angel Host and guest Aetherial should do, of high and important matters."

Montagu [n&eacute;e Robinson], Elizabeth (1718-1800)

Letter (October 10, 1769)

1769

Letter from Montagu Collection in Huntington Library: MO 3258. Cited in Jane Magrath's "'Rags of Mortality': Negotiating the Body in the Bluestocking Letters," <u>Huntington Library Quarterly</u> 65, no. 1/2 (2002): 253.

Animals::Wing

"Know too, the joys of sense controul, / And clog the motions of the soul; / Forbid her pinions to aspire, / Damp and impair her native fire: / And sure as Sense (that tyrant!) reigns, / She holds the empress, Soul, in chains."

Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)

Visions in Verse, for the Entertainment and Instruction of Younger Minds [3rd edition]

1752

20 entries in ESTC (1752, 1753, 1755, 1760, 1767, 1771, 1776, 1781, 1782, 1786, 1787, 1790, 1794, 1798).<br> <br> Text from <u>Various Pieces in Verse and Prose</u>, 2 vols. (London: J. Dodsley, 1791). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zXT3KLT74J4C">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br> <br> Text confirmed in Nathaniel Cotton, <u>Visions in Verse, for the Entertainment and Instruction of Younger Minds</u>, 3rd ed. rev. (London: R. Dodsley and M. Cooper, 1752). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3313182037&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to EECO</a>&gt;<br> <br> See also <u>Visions in Verse: For the Entertainment and Instruction of Younger Minds. A New Edition. </u>(London: J. Dodsley, 1790). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=V6oDAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br> <br> The revised and enlarged 3rd edition adds a new, ninth vision: "Death. Vision the Last"

Animals::Wing

"To me be Nature's volume broad display'd; / And to peruse its all instructing page, / Or, haply catching inspiration thence, / Some easy passage, raptured, to translate, / My sole delight; as through the falling glooms / Pensive I stray, or with the rising dawn / On Fancy's eagle-wing excursive soar."

Thomson, James (1700-1748)

Summer. A Poem.

1727

At least 7 entries in ESTC (1727, 1728, 1730, 1731, 1735, 1740). [Also issued as part of <u>The Four Seasons, and Other Poems</u>.]<br> <br> Poem first published as <u>Summer. A Poem. By James Thomson.</u> (London: Printed for J. Millan, 1727). Second edition in 1728.<br> <br> Text revised between 1727 and 1746. Searching text from <u>The Poetical Works</u> (1830), 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><br> 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;

Animals::Wing

"Man is a machine so compound, that it is impossible to form at first a clear idea thereof, and consequently to define it. This is the reason, that all the enquiries the philosophers have made a priori, that is, by endeavouring to raise themselves on the wings of the understanding have proved ineffectual."

Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)

L'Homme machine [Man a Machine]

1749

4 entries in the ESTC. Published anonymously, translated into English in 1749 with printings in 1750 and 1752.<br> <br> Text from <u>Man a Machine. Translated from the French of the Marquiss D'Argens.</u> (London: Printed for W. Owen, 1749). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW107352679&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br> <br> Reading <u>Man a Machine and Man a Plant</u>, trans. Richard A. Watson and Maya Rybalka (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994). Translation based on version from La Mettrie's <u>Oeuvres philosophiques</u> (Berlin: 1751).

Animals::Wing

"Shall thy Soul / Still scorn the World, still flie the Joys that court / Thy blooming Beauty, and thy tender Youth? / Still shall she soar on Contemplation's Wing, / And mix with nothing meaner than the Stars; / As Heaven and Immortality alone / Were Objects worthy to employ her Faculties."

Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)

The Tragedy Of The Lady Jane Gray.

1715

First performed April 20, 1715. 33 entries in the ESTC (1715, 1717, 1718, 1719, 1720, 1727, 1730, 1733, 1735, 1736, 1740, 1744, 1748, 1750, 1754, 1755, 1761, 1764, 1771, 1774, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1782, 1791)<br> <br> See <u>The Tragedy Of The Lady Jane Gray. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By N. Rowe</u> (London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1715). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW112882512&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;

Animals::Wing

"But if my Soul, / To this gross Clay confin'd, flutters on Earth / With less ambitious Wing; unskill'd to range / From Orb to Orb, where Newton leads the Way; / And view with piercing Eye the grand Machine, / Worlds above Worlds; subservient to his Voice, / Who, veil'd in clouded Majesty, alone / Gives Light to all; bids the great System move, / And changeful Seasons in their Turns advance, / Unmov'd, unchang'd himself."

Somervile, William (1675-1742)

The Chace. A Poem.

1735

22 entries in ESTC (1735, 1743, 1749, 1755, 1757, 1758, 1766, 1767, 1768, 1773, 1786, 1796, 1799, 1800).<br> <br> Text from <u>The Chace. A Poem. To Which Is Added, Hobbinol, or the Rural Games: a Burlesque Poem, in Blank Verse. By William Somervile, Esq.</u> 4th ed. (London: Printed for G. Hawkins, and sold by M. Cooper at the Globe in Pater-Noster-Row, 1749). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T66861">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=CW112514793&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br> <br> See also <u>The Chace. A Poem. By William Somervile, Esq.</u> (London: Printed for G. Hawkins, and sold by T. Cooper, 1735). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW112214927&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to 3rd ed. of 1735 in ECCO</a>&gt;

Animals::Wing

"But if an <em>Original</em>, by being as excellent, as new, adds admiration to surprize, then are we at the writer's mercy; on the strong wing of his imagination, we are snatched from <em>Britain</em> to <em>Italy</em>, from climate to climate, from pleasure to pleasure; we have no home, no thought, of our own; till the magician drops his pen."

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

Conjectures on Original Composition

1759

At least 12 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1759, 1765, 1767, 1768, 1770, 1774, 1778, 1796, 1798).<br> <br> See <u>Conjectures on Original Composition. In a Letter to the Author of Sir Charles Grandison.</u> (London: Printed for A. Millar, in The Strand; and R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1759). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T140626">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=h1IJAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br> <br> The text was initially drawn from RPO and Chadwyck-Healey's <a href="http://gateway.proquest.com.proxy.its.virginia.edu/openurl/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&r es_id=xri:lion-us&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:pr:Z000730434:0">Literature Online</a> (LION). The LION text claims to reproduce the 1759 printing but is marred by typographical errors and has been irregularly modernized. These entries checked against Google Books page images for accuracy and corrected for obvious errors, but italics and capitalization have not yet been uniformly transcribed.

Animals::Wing

"Seiz'd in thought / On fancy's wild and roving wing I sail, / From the green borders of the peopled earth, / And the pale moon, her duteous fair attendant; / From solitary Mars; from the vast orb / Of Jupiter, whose huge gigantic bulk / Dances in ether like the lightest leaf; / To the dim verge, the suburbs of the system, / Where chearless Saturn 'midst her watery moons / Girt with a lucid zone, majestic sits / In gloomy grandeur; like an exiled queen / Amongst her weeping handmaids."

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

An Summer Evening's Meditation [from Poems]

1773

At least 10 entries in ESTC (1773, 1774, 1776, 1777, 1792).<br> <br> Barbauld, Mrs. (Anna Letitia), 1743-1825. See <u>Poems</u> (London: Printed for Joseph Johnson, 1773). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T74944">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004796832.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br> <br> Some text drawn from <u>The Works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld. With a Memoir by Lucy Aikin</u> (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Browne, and Green, 1825).<br> <br> Reading McCarthy, William and Kraft, Elizabeth, eds. <u>Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose</u> (Ontario: Broadview Press, 2002).

Animals::Wing

"But now my soul unus'd to stretch her powers / In flight so daring, drops her weary wing, / And seeks again the known accustom'd spot, / Drest up with sun, and shade, and lawns, and streams, / A mansion fair and spacious for its guest, / And full replete with wonders."

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

An Summer Evening's Meditation [from Poems]

1773

At least 10 entries in ESTC (1773, 1774, 1776, 1777, 1792).<br> <br> Barbauld, Mrs. (Anna Letitia), 1743-1825. See <u>Poems</u> (London: Printed for Joseph Johnson, 1773). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T74944">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004796832.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br> <br> Some text drawn from <u>The Works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld. With a Memoir by Lucy Aikin</u> (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Browne, and Green, 1825).<br> <br> Reading McCarthy, William and Kraft, Elizabeth, eds. <u>Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose</u> (Ontario: Broadview Press, 2002).

Animals::Wings

"So the brave Falcon when its glorys fade / When its strong wings their generous forces shed / The vacant holds ignobler birds supply / With Ravens feathers impd she mounts on high / & weak or giddy strayes along the sky."

Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)

Concerning Resolution [from Satires Notebook]

1713

See Thomas Parnell, <u> Collected Poems of Thomas Parnell</u>, eds. Claude Julien Rawson and F. P. Lock. (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1989).

Animals::Wings

"Let thy Studies [he writes] be as free as thy Thoughts and Contemplations: but fly not only upon the wings of Imagination."

Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682)

Christian Morals

1716

At least 4 entries in ESTC (1716, 1723, 1756, 1761).<br> <br> Christian Morals, by Sr Thomas Brown, of Norwich, M. D. and Author of Religio Medici. Published from the Original and Correct Manuscript of the Author; by John Jeffery, D. D. Arch-Deacon of Norwich. (Cambridge: Printed at the University-Press, for Cornelius Crownfield Printer to the University; and are to be sold by Mr. Knapton at the Crown in St. Paul’s Church-Yard; and Mr. Morphew near Stationers-Hall, London, 1716). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T83772">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;

Animals::Wings

"No more the tender seeds unquicken'd lie, / But stretch their form and wait for wings to fly."

Harte, Walter (1708&#47;9-1774)

An Essay on Reason

1735

5 entries in ESTC (1735, 1736).<br> <br> Text from Walter Harte, <u>An Essay on Reason</u>, 3rd ed., corr. (London: Printed for J. Wright for Lawton Gilliver, 1736). &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:Z200387664:2">Link to LION</a>&gt;<br> <br> See also <u>An Essay on Reason</u> (London: Printed by J. Wright for Lawton Gilliver at Homer’s Head against St. Dunstan’s Church in Fleetstreet, 1735). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T33338">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;

Animals::Wings

"In rainy days keep double guard, / Or spleen will surely be too hard, / Which, like those fish by sailors met, / Flies highest, while its wings are wet."

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;

Animals::Wings

"Whatever unto them is brought, / Is carry'd on the wings of Thought / Before his throne, where, in full state, / He on their merits holds debate, / Examines, Cross-examines, Weighs / Their right to censure or to praise."

Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)

The Ghost

1762

In four books, first published separately. 11 entries in ESTC (1762, 1763, 1765, 1766, 1769).<br> <br> See Charles Churchill, <u>The Ghost</u> (London: Printed for the author, and sold by William Flexney, 1762). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004796563.0001.000">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=CW117025254&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004796563.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br> <br> See also <u>The Ghost. By C. Churchill. Book III.</u> The second edition, with additions. (London: Printed for the author; and sold by W. Flexney, near Gray’s-Inn Gate, Holborn, 1763).&lt;<a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/004806861.0001.000?view=toc">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br> <br> And also <u>The Ghost: Book IV. By C. Churchill.</u> (London: Printed for J. Coote; W. Flexney; G. Kearsly; T. Henderson; J. Gardner; and J. Almon, 1763). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004810902.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br> <br> Reading <u>Charles Churchill: Selected Poetry</u>, ed. Adam Rounce (Nottingham: Trent Editions, 2003).

Animals::Wings

"Whatever unto them is brought, / Is carry'd on the wings of Thought / Before his throne, where, in full state, / He on their merits holds debate, / Examines, Cross-examines, Weighs / Their right to censure or to praise."

Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)

The Ghost

1762

In four books, first published separately. 11 entries in ESTC (1762, 1763, 1765, 1766, 1769).<br> <br> See Charles Churchill, <u>The Ghost</u> (London: Printed for the author, and sold by William Flexney, 1762). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004796563.0001.000">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=CW117025254&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004796563.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br> <br> See also <u>The Ghost. By C. Churchill. Book III.</u> The second edition, with additions. (London: Printed for the author; and sold by W. Flexney, near Gray’s-Inn Gate, Holborn, 1763).&lt;<a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/004806861.0001.000?view=toc">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br> <br> And also <u>The Ghost: Book IV. By C. Churchill.</u> (London: Printed for J. Coote; W. Flexney; G. Kearsly; T. Henderson; J. Gardner; and J. Almon, 1763). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004810902.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br> <br> Reading <u>Charles Churchill: Selected Poetry</u>, ed. Adam Rounce (Nottingham: Trent Editions, 2003).

Animals::Wings

"Whatever unto them is brought, / Is carry'd on the wings of Thought / Before his throne, where, in full state, / He on their merits holds debate, / Examines, Cross-examines, Weighs / Their right to censure or to praise."

Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)

The Ghost

1762

In four books, first published separately. 11 entries in ESTC (1762, 1763, 1765, 1766, 1769).<br> <br> See Charles Churchill, <u>The Ghost</u> (London: Printed for the author, and sold by William Flexney, 1762). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004796563.0001.000">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=CW117025254&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004796563.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br> <br> See also <u>The Ghost. By C. Churchill. Book III.</u> The second edition, with additions. (London: Printed for the author; and sold by W. Flexney, near Gray’s-Inn Gate, Holborn, 1763).&lt;<a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/004806861.0001.000?view=toc">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br> <br> And also <u>The Ghost: Book IV. By C. Churchill.</u> (London: Printed for J. Coote; W. Flexney; G. Kearsly; T. Henderson; J. Gardner; and J. Almon, 1763). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004810902.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br> <br> Reading <u>Charles Churchill: Selected Poetry</u>, ed. Adam Rounce (Nottingham: Trent Editions, 2003).

Animals::Wings

"Fancy no more on airy wings shall rise, / We now must scold the maids, and make the pies."

More, Hannah (1745-1833)

The Search after Happiness: A Pastoral Drama

1773

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

Animals::Wings

"What fancied zone can circumscribe the Soul, / Who, conscious of the source from whence she springs, / By Reason's light on Resolution's wings, / Spite of her frail / companion, dauntless goes / O'er Libya's deserts and through Zembla's snows? "

Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)

[The Alliance of Education and Government. A fragment]

1775

Ed. Roger Lonsdale. <u>The Poems of Thomas Gray, William Collins, and Oliver Goldsmith</u>. London and New York: Longman and Norton: 1972

Animals::Wings

'While we converse together, and I feel / 'Secret correction from the bolt of truth / 'Shot home, my better soul in triumph rides, / Borne on the wings of reason to her throne."

Hurdis, James (1763-1801)

Panthea. A Poem [from Poems]

1790

Only 1 entry in ECCO and ESTC (1790).<br> <br> See James Hurdis, <u>Poems by the Author of The Village Curate, and Adriano</u> (London: J. Johnson, 1790). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW111238764&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;

Animals::Wings

"The good and evil of Eternity are too ponderous for the wings of wit; the mind sinks under them in passive helplessness, content with calm belief and humble adoration."

Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)

Life of Milton [from Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, familiarly known as The Lives of the Poets]

1779

At least 3 entries in ESTC (1779, 1781, 1790). [vols. 1 to 5 dates 1779, vols. 5 to 10, 1781)<br> <br> Samuel Johnson, <u>Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets</u>, vol. 2 (London: Bathurst et al., 1779). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T44190">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CW3310180104&source=gale&userGroupName=viva_uva&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br> <br> Text from Jack Lynch's online edition, based on G. B. Hill's <U>Lives of the English Poets</U>, 3 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905). &lt;<a href="http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/milton.html">Link</a>&gt;

Animals::Wings

"[A]n immoderate desire to please contracts the faculties, and immerges, to borrow the idea of a great philosopher, the soul in matter, till it becomes unable to mount on the wing of contemplation."

Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)

A Vindication of the Rights of Men in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

1790

First edition appears in December of 1790. Second edition, with MW's name on the cover, published December 14. 2 entries in ESTC (1790).<br> <br> Reading <u>The Vindications</u>. eds. D. L. Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf. (Toronto: Broadview Press, 2001). [Based on the 2nd ed.] See also edition at the Online Library of Liberty &lt;<a href="http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/991 on 2009-12-02">Link to OLL</a>&gt;.

Animals::Wings

"If they tell me, that they have mounted on the steps or by the gradual ascent of reason, and by drawing inferences from effects to causes, I still insist, that they have aided the ascent of reason by the wings of imagination; otherwise they could not thus change their manner of inference, and argue from causes to effects; presuming, that a more perfect production than the present world would be more suitable to such perfect beings as the gods, and forgetting that they have no reason to ascribe to these celestial beings any perfection or any attribute, but what can be found in the present world."

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.

Animals::Wings

"Here Arlington, thy mighty Mind disdains / Inferior Earth, and breaks its servile Chains, / Aloft on Contemplations Wings you rise, / Scorn all below and mingle with the Skies."

Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)

Horti Arlingtoniani TRANSLATED [from Translations and Poems Written on Several Subjects]

1731

At least 2 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1731, 1734).<br> <br> See <u>Translations and Poems Written on Several Subjects.</u> (Edinburgh: Printed by Mr. Thomas and Walter Ruddimans, 1731). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T84375">Link to ESTC</a>&gt; &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=LIM0AAAAMAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;

Animals::Wings

"Exulting Reason from her bondage springs, / Claims Heav'n's wide range, and spreads her eagle wings; / While Superstition, lodg'd with bats and owls, / With Horror, and the hopeless maniac, howls."

Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)

A Poetical, Serious, and Possibly Impertinent Epistle to the Pope

1793

At least 5 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1793, 1794, 1795).<br> <br> See Peter Pindar, <u>A Poetical, Serious, and Possibly Impertinent, Epistle to the Pope: Also, a Pair of Odes to his Holiness, on his Keeping a Disorderly House; with a Pretty Little Ode to Innocence</u> (London: T. Evans and Robertson and Berry, 1793). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T134386">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=lC9_cOGxBO4C">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br> <br> Text from <u>The Works of Peter Pindar</u>, 4 vols. (London: Walker and Edwards, 1816).

Animals::Wings

"The passions are the wings of spirit. Cold tranquillity the grave of thought"

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;

Animals::Wings

"How, like a worm, was I wrapt round and round / In silken thought, which reptile Fancy spun, / Till darken'd Reason lay quite clouded o'er / With soft conceit of endless comfort here, / Nor yet put forth her wings to reach the skies!"

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).

Animals::Wings

"But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, / Soon close; where pass'd the shaft, no trace is found. / As from the wing no scar the sky retains, / The parted wave no furrow from the keel, / So dies in human hearts the thought of death."

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).

Animals::Wings

"Our freedom chain'd; quite wingless our desire; / In sense dark-prison'd all that ought to soar / Prone to the centre; crawling in the dust; / Dismounted every great and glorious aim; / Embruted every faculty divine; / Heart-buried in the rubbish of the world."

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

Night the Second. On Time, Death, Friendship. Humbly Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable The Earl of Wilmington [Night-Thoughts]

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> Edward Young, <u>Night the Second. On Time, Death, Friendship. Humbly Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable The Earl of Wilmington</u> (London: Printed for R. Dodsley, 1742).<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).

Animals::Wings

"Souls [are] elevate, angelic, wing'd with fire / To reach the distant skies, and triumph there / On thrones, which shall not mourn their masters changed; / Though we from earth, ethereal they that fell."

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

Night the Second. On Time, Death, Friendship. Humbly Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable The Earl of Wilmington [Night-Thoughts]

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> Edward Young, <u>Night the Second. On Time, Death, Friendship. Humbly Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable The Earl of Wilmington</u> (London: Printed for R. Dodsley, 1742).<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).

Animals::Wings

"Life makes the soul dependent on the dust; / Death gives her wings to mount above the spheres."

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

Night the Third. Narcissa. Inscribed to her Grace the Dutchess of P------. [Night-Thoughts]

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>Night the Third. Narcissa. Inscribed to her Grace the Dutchess of P------.</u> (London: R. Dodsley, 1742). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CB127555063&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</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).

Animals::Wings

"The aspiring Soul, / Ardent and tremulous, like flame, ascends; / Zeal and Humility her wings to heaven."

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

Night the Sixth. The Infidel Reclaim'd. In Two Parts. [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 Sixth. The Infidel Reclaim'd. In Two Parts. Containing, The Nature, Proof, and Importance of Immortality. Part the First. Where, among other things, Glory, and Riches, are particularly consider'd. Humbly Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable Henry Pelham, First Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, and Chancellor of the Exchequer</u>. (London: R. Dodsley, 1744). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW117103376&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</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;<br> <br> Reading Edward Young, <u>Night Thoughts</u>, ed. Stephen Cornford (New York: Cambridge UP, 1989).

Animals::Wings

"Think not our passions from Corruption sprung, / Though to Corruption now they lend their wings; / That is their mistress, not their mother."

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).

Animals::Wings

"Nothing is dead; nay, nothing sleeps; each soul / That ever animated human clay / Now wakes, is on the wing; and where, O where, / Will the swarm settle?"

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).

Animals::Wings

"Is it in words to paint you? O ye fallen! / Fallen from the wings of Reason, and of Hope!"

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).

Animals::Wings

"That turn of imagination which fits a person for productions in the arts, may no doubt be most properly said to soar, to fly, and to have wings. To dig with labour and patience, is a metaphor which may with equal propriety be applied to the investigation of philosophical truth; it is strongly expressive of the intense and continued exertion of judgment, which is requisite in observing all the circumstances of the several experiments, discerning which of them are essential, comparing them together, and tracing out the result of the whole: but the metaphor must not be overstrained, it must not be understood so strictly as to represent the philosopher as a mere drudge, destitute of fancy; without great vigour and activity of imagination, the experiments and observations made use of in that curious work, or in any philosophical enquiry of a like nature, could not be contrived, suggested, and arranged, so as to lay a foundation for legitimate conclusions."

Gerard, Alexander (1728-1795)

An Essay on Genius

1774

Only 1 entry in ESTC (1774).<br> <br> <u>An Essay on Genius. By Alexander Gerard, D.D. Professor of Divinity in King's College, Aberdeen.</u> (London: Printed for W. Strahan; T. Cadell, and W. Creech at Edinburgh 1774). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3315407235&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;

Animals::Wings

"My fluttering Soul was all on Wing to find Thee, / My Love! my Sigismunda!"

Thomson, James (1700-1748)

Tancred and Sigismunda. A Tragedy

1745

At least 29 entries in ESTC (1745, 1748, 1749, 1752, 1755, 1758, 1759, 1761, 1764, 1766, 1767, 1768, 1770, 1774, 1775, 1776, 1777, 1779, 1784, 1787, 1790, 1792). [Robert Hume lists among the "few considerable new plays mounted" between 1737 and 1760.]<br> <br> See <u>Tancred and Sigismunda. A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal In Drury-Lane, By His Majesty's Servants. By James Thomson</u> (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1745). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW106677155&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;

Animals::Wings

"Thus Heaven enlarged his soul in riper years. / For Nature gave him strength, and fire, to soar, / On Fancy's wing, above this vale of tears."

Beattie, James (1735-1803)

The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius. A Poem.

1771

Over 20 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1771, 1772, 1774, 1775, 1776, 1779, 1782, 1784, 1785, 1792, 1794, 1795, 1797, 1799, 1800). Collected in <u>The Muse's Pocket Companion</u>, <u>The Bouquet, A Selection of Poems</u>, and <u>A Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry</u>.<br> <br> "Book The First" printed anonymously in 1771; reprinted in 1772, 1774, etc. The second book was first printed in 1774. See David Radcliffe's <a href="http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/TextRecord.php?action=GET&textsid=34808">Spenser and the Tradition</a>.<br> <br> See <u>The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius. A Poem. Book the First.</u> (London: Printed for E. & C. Dilly, in the Poultry, and for A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1771). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T39397">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br> <br> Text from <u>Poems on Several Occasions, by James Beattie, LL. D. Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Aberdeen.</u> (Edinburgh: Printed for W. Creech, 1776). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T138978">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;

Animals::Wings

"O happy stroke, that bursts the bonds of clay, / Darts through the rending gloom the blaze of day, / And wings the soul with boundless flight to soar, / Where dangers threat, and fears alarm no more."

Beattie, James (1735-1803)

Elegy Occasioned by the Death of a Lady

1760

At least 12 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1760, 1761, 1770, 1773, 1775, 1776, 1779, 1783, 1789, 1797, 1799). Collected in <u>The British Poets</u>, <u>A Collection of Original Poems. By Rev. Mr. Blacklock, and Other Scotch Gentlemen</u>, <u>The Muse's Pocket Companion</u>, Pearch's <u>A Collection of Original Poems. In Four Volumes</u>, <u>Choice of the Best Poetical Pieces of the Most Eminent English Poets</u>, <u>The English Parnassus</u>, and <u>Bell's Classical Arrangment of Fugitive Poetry</u>.<br> <br> See <u>Original Poems and Translations. By James Beattie, A.M.</u> (London [i.e. Aberdeen?]: Printed [by F. Douglas, Aberdeen?]; and sold by A. Millar in The Strand, 1760). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T136422">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=CW3312517409&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br> <br> Also <u>Original Poems and Translations. By James Beattie, A.M.</u> (Aberdeen: Printed by F. Douglas; and sold by him for the benefit of the author, and in London by A. Millar, in the Strand, 1761). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T136423">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=CW3315052971&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br> <br> Text from <u>Poems on Several Subjects. By James Beattie</u>, new edition, corrected (London: Printed for W. Johnston, 1766). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T136424">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=MrkDAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;