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Animals | "The first reverend sage who delivered himself on this mysterious subject, having stroked his grey beard, and hemmed thrice with great solemnity, declared that the soul was an animal; a second pronounced it to be the number three, or proportion; a third contended for the number seven, or harmony; a fourth defined the s... | Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777) | The History and Adventures of an Atom | 1769 | 7 entries in the ESTC (1769, 1786, 1795, 1797, 1799).<br>
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Tobias Smollett, <u>The History and Adventures of an Atom</u>, 2 vols. (London: Robinson and Roberts, 1769). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW111569721&type=multipage&... |
Animals | "But was it made for nothing else beside / Passions to draw, and Reason to be Guide? / Was so much Art employ'd to drag and drive / Nothing within the Vehicle alive? / No seated Mind that claims the moving Pew, / Master of Passions, and of Reason too?" | Byrom, John (1692-1763) | Thoughts on the Constitution of Human Nature, as Represented in the Systems of Modern Philosophers [from Miscellaneous Poems] | 1773 | 2 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1773).<br>
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Text from <u>The Poems of John Byrom</u>, ed. Adolphus William Ward, 2 vols. (Manchester: Printed for The Chetham Society, 1894-1895). <<a href="http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xri:lion&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:po:Z300293584:3"... |
Animals | "But upon turning this Plan to and fro in my Thoughts, I observed so many unaccountable Humours in Man, that I did not know out of what Animals to fetch them." | Addison, Joseph (1672-1719) | Spectator, No. 211 | 1711 | At least 80 entries in ESTC (1711, 1712, 1713, 1714, 1715, 1716, 1717, 1718, 1720, 1721, 1723, 1724, 1726, 1729, 1733, 1734, 1735, 1737, 1738, 1744, 1745, 1747, 1748, 1749, 1750, 1753, 1754, 1755, 1756, 1756, 1757, 1761, 1763, 1765, 1766, 1767, 1769, 1771, 1776, 1778, 1785, 1788, 1789, 1781, 1793, 1797, 1799, 1800).<br... |
Animals::Animal Activities::Breeding | Insinuations "breed suspicion" in the mind | Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810) | Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 [First Part] | 1799 | First part published in 1799; second in 1800. Reading and transcribing text from Charles Brockden Brown, <u>Three Gothic Novels</u>. New York: Library of America,1998. |
Animals::Animal Activities::Feeding | "Sorrow may well possess the mind / That feeds where thorns and thistles grow" | Cowper, William (1731-1800) | Hymn LXII. The Narrow Way | 1779 | Cowper, William. <u>The Poems of William Cowper</u>. 3 vols. Ed. John D. Baird and Charles Ryskamp. Oxford: Oxford UP: 1980. |
Animals::Animal Activities::Flying | "His Words I must confess fir'd my Blood; all my Spirits flew about my Heart, and put me into Disorder enough." | Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731) | The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders | 1722 | At least 13 entries in the ESTC (1722, 1741, 1753, 1761, 1765, 1770, 1773, 1776, 1799). [Abridgments not included in foregoing list: see, for example, <u>Fortune's Fickle Distribution</u>]<br>
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Daniel Defoe, <u>The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, & c. Who was Born in Newgate, And during a Life... |
Animals::Animal Activities::Gnawing | "That name indeed / Becomes the rosy breath of love; becomes / The radiant smiles of joy, the applauding hand / Of admiration: but the bitter shower / That sorrow sheds upon a brother's grave, / But the dumb palsy of nocturnal fear, / Or those consuming fires that gnaw the heart / Of panting indignation, find we there/... | Akenside, Mark (1720-1771) | The Pleasures of Imagination | 1744 | Over 33 entries in the ESTC (1744, 1748, 1754, 1758, 1759, 1763, 1765, 1767, 1768, 1769, 1771, 1775, 1777, 1780, 1786, 1788, 1794, 1795, 1796).<br>
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Text from Mark Akenside, <u>The Poems Of Mark Akenside</u> (London: W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1772).<br>
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Compare the poem as first published: Mark Akenside, <u>Th... |
Animals::Animal Activities::Gnawing | "I'll wait till her just resentment is abated--and when I distress her so again, may I lose her for ever! and be linked instead to some antique virago, whose knawing passions, and long-hoarded spleen, shall make me curse my folly half the day, and all the night!" | Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816) | The Rivals, a Comedy. | 1775 | First performed January 17th, 1775. 14 entries in ESTC (1775, 1776, 1785, 1788, 1791, 1793, 1797, 1798).<br>
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Sheridan, R. B. <u>The Rivals, a Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden</u> (London: John Wilkie, 1775). <<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004899844.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a... |
Animals::Animal Activities::Predation | "Such the strong passions that his reason sway, / The lust, and av'rice on his vital prey." | Ruffhead, James | The Passions of Man. A Poem. In Four Epistles | 1746 | At least 2 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1746, 1747).<br>
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James Ruffhead, <u>The Passions of Man. A Poem. In Four Epistles</u> (London: Printed for the Author, 1746). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW116315481&type=multipage&cont... |
Animals::Animal Activities::Predation | "[S]he had no Food from outward Objects, to employ her animal Spirits, and they therefore prey'd at home; and oppressed her own Mind." | Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) | The History of the Countess of Dellwyn | 1759 | 2 entries in the ESTC (1759).<br>
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See <u>The History of the Countess of Dellwyn. In Two Volumes: By the Author of David Simple.</u> (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1759). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T66941">Link to ESTC</a>> |
Animals::Animal Activities::Taming | "His passions tamed and all at his control, / How perfect the composure of his soul!" | Cowper, William (1731-1800) | Truth [from Poems] | 1782 | At least entries in ECCO and ESTC (1782, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1790, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1797, 1798, 1800, 1799, 1800).<br>
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See <u>Poems by William Cowper</u> (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1782). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T14895">Link to ESTC</a>>
<<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004792651.0001.000">Li... |
Animals::Animals | "He supposed that a philosopher's brain was like a great forest, where ideas ranged like animals of several kinds; that those ideas copulated and engendered conclusions; that when those different species copulate, they bring forth monsters and absurdities; that the major is the male, the minor the female, which copulat... | Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Arbuthnot, John (bap. 1677, d. 1735) | Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus | 1741 | At least 16 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1741, 1742, 1752, 1756, 1757, 1758, 1761, 1764, 1766, 1767, 1768, 1772, 1774, 1778, 1779, 1789). Republished in the <u>Works</u> of Pope and of Swift.<br>
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See <u>Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus. By Mr. Pope</u> (Dublin: Printed ... |
Animals::Bat | "Whether the learned Dr. Edmund Law, and the great Dr. Sherlock bishop of London, be right, in asserting, the human soul sleeps like a bat or a swallow, in some cavern for a period, till the last trumpet awakens the hero of Voltaire and Henault, I mean Lewis XIV." | Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788) | The Life of John Buncle, Esq. | 1756 | At least 4 entries in the ESTC (1756, 1763, 1766, 1770).<br>
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Text from first printing: <u>The Life of John Buncle, Esq; Containing Various Observations and Reflections, Made in Several Parts of the World; and Many Extraordinary Relations</u>, (London: Printed for J. Noon, 1756). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.... |
Animals::Beast | "Fierce is their [natives of hot climates] Rage, and all the Savage Beast / Reigns in their Soul, and haunts their desart Breast; / Where Hate, Revenge, and Jealousy are bred, / And livid Envy hides her spleenful Head." | Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729) | The Nature of Man. A Poem. In Three Books. | 1711 | At least 2 entries in the ESTC (1711, 1720)<br>
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Richard Blackmore, <u>The Nature of Man. A Poem. In Three Books.</u> (London: Sam. Buckley, 1711). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CB132805565&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArtic... |
Animals::Beast | "Tread down Thy foes, with power control / The beast and devil in my soul." | Wesley, John and Charles | Hymn CXXVIII [from A Collection of Hymns] | 1780 | At least 14 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1780, 1781, 1782, 1784, 1786, 1788, 1791, 1793, 1795, 1797).<br>
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Collected as early as 1780 in <u>A Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists.</u> (London: Printed by J. Paramore, at the Foundry, 1780). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T28513">Link to ESTC... |
Animals::Beast::Lamb | "This <em>Winged Boy</em> a gentle mind did bear, / As gentle as the beast [a lamb] which him up-bore, / Ne could he see th'unhappy drop a tear / But it would make his breast with pity sore, / And he himself would weep and grieve therefore." | Downman, Hugh (1740-1809) | The Land of the Muses: A Poem, In the Manner of Spenser; As if to be inserted in the 2d Book of the Fairy Queen, between the 11th and 12th Cantos. [from The Land of the Muses] | 1768 | Only 1 entry in ESTC (1768).<br>
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<u>The Land of the Muses: a Poem, in the Manner of Spenser. With Poems on Several Occasions. By Hugh Downman</u> (Edinburgh: Printed for the author. Sold by A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh; and by R. Baldwin, and Richardson & Urquhart, London, 1768). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/... |
Animals::Beast::Lion | "'Tis said, when Japhet's Son began / To mould the Clay, and fashion Man, / He stole from every Beast a Part, / And fix'd the Lion in his Heart." | Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor] | Ode XVI. To Tyndaris, Whom he had Insulted in Iämbic Verse [from The Works of Horace] | 1757 | <u>The Works of Horace in English verse. By several Hands. Collected and Published by Mr. Duncombe. With Notes Historical and Critical</u>, 2 vols. (London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1757). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW112364291&type... |
Animals::Beasts | "O save me from the tumult of the soul! / From the wild beasts within!" | Thomson, James (1700-1748) | The Tragedy of Sophonisba | 1730 | At least 22 entries in the ESTC (1730, 1735, 1736, 1738, 1744, ).<br>
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See James Thomas. <u>The Tragedy of Sophonisba</u>. London: Printed for A. Millar, 1730. <<a href="http://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=chadwyck_evd/uvaGenText/tei/chevd_V2.0353.xml;brand=default;">Link to UVA Library</a>> |
Animals::Beasts | "My soul is dead, my heart is stone, / A cage of birds and beasts unclean, / A den of thieves, a dire abode / Of dragons, but no house of God." | Wesley, John and Charles | Groaning for Redemption. [from Hymns and Sacred Poems] | 1742 | More than 11 entries in ESTC (1742, 1743, 1745, 1747, 1749, 1755, 1756). See also the many other collections of hymns which select from or incorporate hymns from the original.<br>
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From the 1742 edition <u>Hymns and Sacred Poems</u> (Bristol: Printed and sold by Felix Farley, in Castle-Green; J. Wilson in Wine-Stre... |
Animals::Beasts | "Mankind's the same to Beasts and Fouls / That Devils are to Humane Soules, / Who therefor, when like Fiends th' appeare, / Avoyd and Fly with equal feare." | Butler, Samuel (1613-1680) | The World [from Poetical Thesaurus] | 1759 | Text from <u>Satires and Miscellaneous Poetry and Prose</u>, ed. René Lamar (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1928).<br>
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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). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&s... |
Animals::Beasts | "My soul is like a wilderness, / Where beasts of midnight howl; / There the sad raven finds her place, / And there the screaming owl." | Watts, Isaac (1674-1748) | Psalm 102. v. 1-13, 20, 21. First Part. (C. M.) A Prayer of the Afflicted. | 1719 | Text from <u>The Works of the Reverend and Learned Isaac Watts, D. D.</u>, 6 vols. (London: Printed by and for John Barfield, 1810).<br>
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See also <u>The Psalms of David, Imitated in the Language of the New Testament, and Applied to the Christian State and Worship</u> (London: Printed for J. Clark and R. Ford, 1719... |
Animals::Beasts | "Passions that flatter, or that slay, / Are beasts that fawn, or birds that prey." | Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788) | Visions in Verse, for the Entertainment and Instruction of Younger Minds | 1751 | At least 20 entries in ESTC (1751, 1752, 1753, 1755, 1760, 1767, 1771, 1776, 1781, 1782, 1786, 1787, 1790, 1794, 1798).<br>
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Text from <u>Various Pieces in Verse and Prose</u>, 2 vols. (London: J. Dodsley, 1791). <<a href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zXT3KLT74J4C">Link to Google Books</a>><br>
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Animals::Beasts | "Behold the frantick passion how it burns, / Like a wild beast breaks every tie, / Laughs at the Priest; the Legislator spurns, / And gives both heaven and earth the lye!" | Stevenson, John Hall (1717-1785) | Ode to Venus | 1780 | Text from volume iii, of <u>The Works</u> <<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Py0JAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>><br>
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See also <u>Crazy Tales: and Fables for Grown Gentlemen</u>, new ed. (London: Printed for J. Dodsley and T. Becket, 1780). <<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=K04shfHupqQ... |
Animals::Beasts | "These abandon'd him to the Fury of an enrag'd Conscience, open'd the Sluices of the Soul, as I call them, and pour'd in a Flood of unsufferable Grief, letting loose those wild Beasts call'd Passions upon him, such as Rage, Anguish, Self-reproach, too late Repentance, and final Desperation, all to fall upon him at once... | Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731) | An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions | 1727 | 2 entries in ESTC (1727, 1728). For a publication history, see Rodney Baine's 1962 essay, "Daniel Defoe and 'The History and Reality of Apparitions.'" First edition, published by J. Roberts, appeared anonymously on March 18, 1727. Second issues were sold the same year by A. Millar. The 1735 edition, reissued in 1738 an... |
Animals::Beasts::Wild Beasts | "His mind resembled the vast ampitheatre, the Colisaeum at Rome. In the centre stood his judgment, which like a mighty gladiator, combated those apprehensions that, like the wild beasts of the <i>Arena</i>, were all around in cells, ready to be let out upon him. After a conflict, he drives then back to their dens; but ... | Boswell, James (1740-1795) | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. | 1791 | 5 entries in ESTC (1791, 1792, 1793, 1799).<br>
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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 B... |
Animals::Bee | "My Heart was so free, / It rov'd like the Bee, / 'Till Polly my Passion requited." | Gay, John (1685-1732) | The Beggar's Opera | 1728 | <u>The Beggar's Opera. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Written by Mr. Gay</u> (London: Printed for John Watts, 1728). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW109713725&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&v... |
Animals::Beehive | "Wisdom, though richer than Peruvian mines, / And sweeter than the sweet ambrosial hive,-- / What is she but the means of happiness?" | 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, 1... |
Animals::Beehive | "An antient philosopher indeed, full of real or pretended honesty, declared it to be his wish that there were a window in his breast that every body might see the integrity and purity of his thoughts. It would be truly be very pretty and amusing if our bodies were transparent, so that we could see one anothers sentimen... | Boswell, James (1740-1795) | The Hypochondriack, No. 6 | 1778 | <u>The Hypochondriack</u>, No. 6 (March, 1778). See <u>The London Magazine, or Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer</u> <<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=M_URAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA105#v=onepage&q&f=false">Link to Google Books</a>><br>
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Animals::Beehive::Dioptrical Beehive | "That had said glass been there set up, nothing more would have been wanting, in order to have taken a man's character, but to have taken a chair and gone softly, as you would to a dioptrical bee-hive, and look'd in,--view'd the soul stark naked;--observ'd all her motions,--her machinations;--traced all her maggots fro... | 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,... |
Animals::Bees | "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 c... | 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>
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Reading Jonathan Swift, <u>A Tale of a Tub and Other Works</u>, eds. Ang... |
Animals::Bees::Honey | "If you, these moral Truths, would comprehend, / To moral Writers, your Attention lend; / By reading them, you'll Wisdom's Honey gain, / And with her golden Stores, inrich your Brain." | Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766) | Female Conduct: Being an Essay on the Art of Pleasing | 1759 | 3 entries in ESTC (1759, 1760, 1775).<br>
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Text from <u>Female Conduct: Being an Essay on the Art of Pleasing. To Be Practised by the Fair Sex, Before, and After Marriage. A Poem, in Two Books. Humbly Dedicated, to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. Inscribed to Plautilla. by Thomas Marriott, Esq.</u> (Londo... |
Animals::Bees::Honey | "If you, these moral Truths, would comprehend, / To moral Writers, your Attention lend; / By reading them, you'll Wisdom's Honey gain, / And with her golden Stores, inrich your Brain." | Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766) | Female Conduct: Being an Essay on the Art of Pleasing | 1759 | 3 entries in ESTC (1759, 1760, 1775).<br>
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Text from <u>Female Conduct: Being an Essay on the Art of Pleasing. To Be Practised by the Fair Sex, Before, and After Marriage. A Poem, in Two Books. Humbly Dedicated, to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. Inscribed to Plautilla. by Thomas Marriott, Esq.</u> (Londo... |
Animals::Bird | "As a bird that had been frighted from its nest, my affections out-went my haste, and hovered around my little fire-side, with all the rapture of expectation." | Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774) | The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale | 1766 | 68 entries in the ESTC (1766, 1767, 1769, 1772, 1774, 1775, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780, 1781, 1783, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1795, 1797, 1799, 1800).<br>
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Animals::Bird | "Our Soul, as from a broken Snare / A Bird escapes, is fled." | Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729) | Psalm CXXIV [from A New Version of the Psalms of David] | 1721 | Sir Richard Blackmore, <u>A New Version of the Psalms of David, Fitted to the Tunes used in Churches.</u> (London: J. March, 1721). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW118241296&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docL... |
Animals::Bird | "My Heart flutters like a Bird: I long for Mrs. Martha's Return. | Miller, James (1704-1744) | Vanelia: Or, The Amours of the Great. An Opera. As it is Acted By a Private Company near St. James's. | 1732 | |
Animals::Bird | "Do, mother, put your hand upon my heart, it springs like a bird in my breast with joy." | Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788) | Barataria: or, Sancho Turn'd Governor, a Farce, in Two Acts: As it is Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. | 1785 | Text from Frederick Pilon, <u>Barataria: or, Sancho Turn'd Governor, a Farce, in Two Acts</u>, new edition (London: J. Almon, 1793). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW106892899&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&doc... |
Animals::Bird | The heart like a bird to its nestling will fly, / And when by the weight of a parent its bending, / Yet wishes while constant to break and to die. / Like a bird in a snare, of its freedom bereft, / Still hoping and wishing releasement again, / 'Till clos'd in the cage the flutterer is left / To pant and to sigh for its... | Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788) | The Heroine of Love, a Musical Piece of Three Acts | 1778 | Only 1 entry in ESTC (1778).<br>
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James Robertson, The Heroine of Love, a Musical Piece of Three Acts (York: W. Blanchard, 1778). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T117783">Link to ESTC</a>><<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=HJkNAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>> |
Animals::Bird | "'Tis all in vain, this Rage that tears thy Bosom, / Like a poor Bird that flutters in its Cage, / Thou beat'st thy self to Death." | Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718) | The Tragedy of Jane Shore. | 1714 | Over seventy entries in the ESTC (1714, 1719, 1720, 1723, 1726, 1728, 1731, 1733, 1735, 1736, 1740, 1746, 1748, 1751, 1752, 1754, 1755, 1756, 1758, 1760, 1761, 1764, 1765, 1767, 1768, 1770, 1772, 1773, 1774, 1780, 1783, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1790, 1791).<br>
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Animals::Bird | "Upon her Tongue did such smooth Mischief dwell, / And from her Lips such welcome Flatt'ry fell, / Th' unguarded Youth, in Silken Fetters ty'd, / Resign'd his Reason, and with Ease complied. / Thus does the Ox to his own Slaughter go, / And thus is senseless of th' impending Blow. / Thus flies the simple Bird into the ... | Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729) | Spectator, No. 410 | 1712 | At least 80 entries in ESTC (1711, 1712, 1713, 1714, 1715, 1716, 1717, 1718, 1720, 1721, 1723, 1724, 1726, 1729, 1733, 1734, 1735, 1737, 1738, 1744, 1745, 1747, 1748, 1749, 1750, 1753, 1754, 1755, 1756, 1756, 1757, 1761, 1763, 1765, 1766, 1767, 1769, 1771, 1776, 1778, 1785, 1788, 1789, 1781, 1793, 1797, 1799, 1800).<br... |
Animals::Bird::Bird of Paradise | "Whether a tincture of malice in our natures makes us fond of furnishing every bright idea with its reverse, or whether reason, reflecting upon the sum of things, can, like the sun, serve only to enlighten one half of the globe, leaving the other half by necessity under shade and darkness, or whether fancy, flying up t... | 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>
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Reading Jonathan Swift, <u>A Tale of a Tub and Other Works</u>, eds. Angus Ross and David Woolley. ... |
Animals::Bird::Cormorant | "Among the helluones librorum, the Cormorants of Books, there are wretched Reasoners, that have canine Appetites, and no Digestion." | Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733) | The Fable of the Bees. Part II. | 1729 | Complicated publication history. At least 16 entries for <u>The Fable of the Bees</u> in ESTC (1729, 1732, 1733, 1734, 1740, 1750, 1755, 1755, 1772, 1795).<br>
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<u>The Grumbling Hive</u> was printed as a pamphlet in 1705. 1st edition of <u>The Fable of the Bees</u> published in 1714, 2nd edition in 1723 (with addi... |
Animals::Bird::Dove | "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 ... | 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>
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First published as <u>An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals. By David Hume, Esq</u> (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1751). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infom... |
Animals::Bird::Eagle | "But in its proper Vacuity, and being freed from these Letts and Impediments, it [the soul] would mount towards its Original, like an Eagle toward the Sun." | Cheyne, George (1671-1743) | An Essay of Health and Long Life | 1724 | Cheyne, George. <u>An Essay of Health and Long Life</u> (London: George Strahan, 1724). <<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=5wIAAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>> |
Animals::Birds | "For if vast Thoughts shou'd play about a <i>Mind</i> / Inclos'd in Flesh, and dregging cumbrous Life, / Fluttering and beating in the mournful Cage, / It soon wou'd break its Grates and wing away." | Evans, Abel (1679-1737) | Præ-existence. A Poem, In Imitation of Milton. | 1714 | 3 entries in ESTC (1714, 1740, 1800).<br>
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<u>Præ-Existence. A Poem, In Imitation of Milton.</u> (London: Printed for John Clark, at the Bible and Crown in the Old Change, near St. Paul’s, 1714). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T2349">Link to ESTC</a>> |
Animals::Birds | "For if vast Thoughts shou'd play about a <i>Mind</i> / Inclos'd in Flesh, and dregging cumbrous Life, / Fluttering and beating in the mournful Cage, / It soon wou'd break its Grates and wing away." | Evans, Abel (1679-1737) | Præ-existence. A Poem, In Imitation of Milton. | 1714 | 3 entries in ESTC (1714, 1740, 1800).<br>
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<u>Præ-Existence. A Poem, In Imitation of Milton.</u> (London: Printed for John Clark, at the Bible and Crown in the Old Change, near St. Paul’s, 1714). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T2349">Link to ESTC</a>> |
Animals::Birds | "'Tis hard, he cries, to bring to sudden sight / Ideas that have wing'd their distant flight." | Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E. | The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek | 1725 | Over 30 entries in ESTC (1725, 1726, 1745, 1752, 1753, 1758, 1760, 1761, 1763, 1766, 1767, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1773, 1778, 1790, 1792, 1795, 1796).<br>
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<u>The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek</u>, 5 vols. (London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, 1725-26). |
Animals::Birds | "Don't your Heart ake for me? --I am sure mine flutter'd about like a Bird in a Cage new caught." | Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761) | Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded. | 1740 | Over 53 entries in ESTC (1740, 1741, 1742, 1743, 1746, 1754, 1762, 1767, 1771, 1772, 1775, 1776, 1785, 1792, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798, 1799). [Richardson published third and fourth volumes in 1741.]<br>
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First edition published in two volumes on 6 November, 1740--dated 1741 on the title page. Volumes 3 and 4 we... |
Animals::Birds | "The window was open. Away the troublesome bosom-visiter [Conscience], the intruder, is flown." | Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761) | Clarissa. Or, the History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. | 1748 | Published December 1747 (vols. 1-2), April 1748 (vols. 3-4), December 1748 (vols. 5-7). Over 28 entries in ESTC (1748, 1749, 1751, 1751, 1759, 1764, 1765, 1768, 1772, 1774, 1780, 1784, 1785, 1788, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1794, 1795, 1798, 1800). Passages "restored" in 3rd edition of 1751. An abridgment in 1756.<br>
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Animals::Birds | "Ev'n from this dark confinement with delight / She [the mind] looks abroad, and prunes herself for flight; / Like an unwilling inmate longs to roam / From this dull earth, and seek her native home." | Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787); Browne, Isaac Hawkins (1706-1760) | On the Immortality of the Soul | 1761 | At least 4 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1761, 1770, 1790, 1793).<br>
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See Miscellaneous Pieces, in Two Volumes. ... . Containing Poems, Translations, and Essays. (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, at Tully's Head, in Pall Mall, 1761).<<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO... |
Animals::Birds | "Fat flattens the most brilliant thoughts, / Like the buff-stop on harpsichords, or spinets-- / Muffling their pretty little tuneful throats, / That would have chirp'd away like linnets." | Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819) | Ode V [from Lyric Odes to the Royal Academicians] | 1787 | 14 entries in ESTC. Collection expanded from 1782 to 1790; see also <u>More Lyric Odes</u>. Hits in ECCO and ESTC (1782, 1787, 1788, 1789, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795).
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The first eight odes published as <u>Lyric Odes, to the Royal Academicians. By Peter Pindar, a Distant Relation to the Poet of Thebes.</u> (L... |
Animals::Birds | "But the free-thinker, with a vigorous flight of thought, breaks through those airy springes, and asserts his original independency." | Berkeley, George (1685-1753) | Alciphron: or the Minute Philosopher | 1732 | At least 9 entries in ESTC (1732, 1752, 1755, 1757, 1767).<br>
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<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). <<a href="http://name.umdl.... |
Animals::Birds | "My Brain's disturb'd; alas! alas! I rave; / What can I do? a poor forsaken Slave! / Like Birds, that spend their little idle Rage, / And, fruitless, mourn, indignant of their Cage, / From Thought to Thought, my fluttering Spirits rove, / Betray'd to Bondage, and, ah! lost to Love." | Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811) [Editor] | Peruvian Letters [from The Shamrock: or, Hibernian Cresses] | 1772 | 5 entries in the ESTC (1772, 1773, 1774, 1782).<br>
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See <u>The Shamrock: or, Hibernian Cresses. A Collection of Poems, Songs, Epigrams, &c. Latin as well as English, The Original Production of Ireland.</u> (Dublin: Printed by R. Marchbank, 1772). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk:80/F/KSF3YMTA6F9VV8FRDXY99M8IV6YY... |
Animals::Birds | "Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler: the snare is broken, and we are delivered." | The Church of England | The Book of Common Prayer | 1762 | <u>The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of The Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David</u>. (Cambridge: Baskerville, 1762). <<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=_sYUAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Bo... |
Animals::Birds | "In Christ, his work and word / I trust, why should ye say, / That like a tim'rous bird / My soul must wing her way, / And flee from those, whose deadly skill / At worst can but the body kill?" | Smart, Christopher (1722-1771) | Psalm XI [from A Translation of the Psalms of David] | 1765 | Only 1 entry in ESTC (1765).<br>
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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... |
Animals::Birds | "In Christ, his work and word / I trust, why should ye say, / That like a tim'rous bird / My soul must wing her way, / And flee from those, whose deadly skill / At worst can but the body kill?" | Smart, Christopher (1722-1771) | Psalm XI [from A Translation of the Psalms of David] | 1765 | Only 1 entry in ESTC (1765).<br>
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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... |
Animals::Birds | "As when the greedy fowler's snare / The birds by providence elude, / Our souls are rescu'd from despair, / And their free flight renew'd." | Smart, Christopher (1722-1771) | Psalm CXXIV [from A Translation of the Psalms of David] | 1765 | Only 1 entry in ESTC (1765).<br>
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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... |
Animals::Birds | "My soul is dead, my heart is stone, / A cage of birds and beasts unclean, / A den of thieves, a dire abode / Of dragons, but no house of God." | Wesley, John and Charles | Groaning for Redemption. [from Hymns and Sacred Poems] | 1742 | More than 11 entries in ESTC (1742, 1743, 1745, 1747, 1749, 1755, 1756). See also the many other collections of hymns which select from or incorporate hymns from the original.<br>
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From the 1742 edition <u>Hymns and Sacred Poems</u> (Bristol: Printed and sold by Felix Farley, in Castle-Green; J. Wilson in Wine-Stre... |
Animals::Birds | "This little Bird, when you receive, / An emblem of my heart believe." | Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761) | To a Young Lady, With a Bird and Cage [from Poems on Various Subjects] | 1754 | <u>Poems on Various Subjects; with some Essays in Prose, Letters to Correspondents, &c. and A Treatise on Health. By Samuel Bowden</u> (Bath: T. Boddely, 1754). <<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=usYIAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>> |
Animals::Birds | "For, oh! my heart was light as ony bird that flew, / And, wae as a' thing was, it had a kindly hue." | Barnard [née Lindsay], Lady Anne (1750-1825) | Auld Robin Gray | 1776 | An altered version first printed in David Herd's <u>Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, &c.</u> (1776). First authoritative edition published by Walter Scott in 1825. |
Animals::Birds | "My ravish'd Heart strait like a Bird of Prey / Stoop'd at the Lure; And thus my early Youth / Was by vain Thoughts bewildred and mis-led." | Monck [née Molesworth], Mary (1677?-1715) | Canzone of Monsignior della Casa [from Marinda. Poems and Translations upon Several Occasions] | 1716 | Mary Monck, <u>Marinda: Poems and Translations upon Several Occasions</u> (London: J. Tonson, 1716). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW111311518&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a... |
Animals::Birds | "When love is fetter'd, all is fire, / And tender passion soon decays; / Like those sweet birds which soon expire, / When we wou'd force their tuneful lays." | Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick (1746-1828) | The Fatal Kiss, a Poem | 1781 | Thomas Sedgwick Whalley, <u>The Fatal Kiss, a Poem. Written in the Last Stage of an Atrophy, by a Beautiful and Unfortunate Young Lady; The Singular and Melancholy Circumstances of Whose Life May, Perhaps, be One Day Offered the Publick, to the Confusion and Disgrace of one whose Fortune and Rank Would not have Power t... |
Animals::Birds | "His Love's the very Bird-lime of his Brain, / And pulls some Part away with every Strain." | Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709) | Love Given Over: Or, A Satyr Against Woman | 1709 | At least 7 entries in ESTC (1682, 1683, 1685, 1686, 1690, 1709, 1710).<br>
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See <u>Love Given O're: or, a Satyr Against the Pride, Lust, and Inconstancy, &c. of Woman.</u> (London: Printed for Andrew Green, 1682). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/R28042">Link to ESTC</a>><br>
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Animals::Birds | "[A]nd when they perceive him so different from what he hath been described, all Gentleness, Softness, Kindness, Tenderness, Fondness, their dreadful Apprehensions vanish in a moment; and now (it being usual with the human Mind to skip from one Extreme to its Opposite, as easily, and almost as suddenly, as a Bird from ... | Fielding, Henry (1707-1754) | The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, And of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams. Written in Imitation of The Manner of Cervantes, Author of Don Quixote. In Two Volumes | 1742 | Text from Henry Fielding, <u>The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, And of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams. Written in Imitation of The Manner of Cervantes, Author of Don Quixote</u>, 2 vols. (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1742). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&u... |
Animals::Birds | "Tears gushing again, my heart fluttering as a bird against its wires; drying my eyes again and again to no purpose." | Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761) | Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady ... The Third Edition. In which Many Passages and Some Letters are Restored from the Original Manuscripts | 1751 | Printed in three installments in 1747-8. Over 25 entries in ESTC (1751, 1759, 1764, 1765, 1768, 1772, 1774, 1780, 1784, 1785, 1788, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1794, 1795, 1798, 1800). <br>
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Animals::Birds | "A most susceptible and tender Heart? -- Yes, you may feel it throb, it beats against my Breast, like an imprison'd Bird, and fain would burst it's Cage! to fly to you, the Aim of all its Wishes!" | Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756) | Love in Excess: or the Fatal Enquiry, a Novel | 1719 | At least 12 entries in ESTC (1719, 1720, 1721, 1722, 1724, 1725, 1732, 1742).<br>
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Published in 3 parts in 1719-1720. <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T75397">Part 1, ESTC</a>><<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T75398">Part 2, ESTC</a>><<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T75399">Part 3, ESTC</a>><br>
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Animals::Birds | "My Heart flutters within me for Fear of him, like a Bird that's hunted in a Cage." | Bellamy, Daniel, the Elder (b. 1687) | The Rival Priests; Or, The Female Politician: A Farce | 1739 | Text from <u>Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, Consisting of Dramatick Pieces, Poems, Humorous Tales, Fables, &c.</u>, 2 vols. (London: Printed for J. Hodges, 1739-40). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW114296870&type=multipage&cont... |
Animals::Birds | "So very well Sweetheart; I am mightily troubled with Phlegm--od I took it a little too high for my Constitution, but every time I look upon you, I fancy my self but Eighteen, and my Heart springs in my Belly like a Bird in a Cage." | Bullock, Christopher (bap. 1690, d. 1722) | Woman is a Riddle; a Comedy | 1717 | Eight entries in ESTC (1717, 1729, 1731, 1732, 1770, 1717, 1759, 1760).<br>
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See Christopher Bullock, <u>Woman is a Riddle; a Comedy: as it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields</u> (London: Printed by T. Wood and T. Sharpe, for A. Bettesworth, 1717). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.d... |
Animals::Birds | "I am gone--oh my Transported Soul,... That like a Bird fain to its nest wou'd fly, / But finds all Plunder'd where it us'd to lye." | D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723) | The Bath, or, the Western Lass. A Comedy, As It Is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants. | 1701 | Thomas D'Urfey, <u>The Bath, or, the Western Lass. A Comedy, As It Is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants</u> (London: Printed for Peter Buck, 1701). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW107397090&type=... |
Animals::Birds | "Mankind's the same to Beasts and Fouls / That Devils are to Humane Soules, / Who therefor, when like Fiends th' appeare, / Avoyd and Fly with equal feare." | Butler, Samuel (1613-1680) | The World [from Poetical Thesaurus] | 1759 | Text from <u>Satires and Miscellaneous Poetry and Prose</u>, ed. René Lamar (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1928).<br>
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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). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&s... |
Animals::Birds | "Passions that flatter, or that slay, / Are beasts that fawn, or birds that prey." | Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788) | Visions in Verse, for the Entertainment and Instruction of Younger Minds | 1751 | At least 20 entries in ESTC (1751, 1752, 1753, 1755, 1760, 1767, 1771, 1776, 1781, 1782, 1786, 1787, 1790, 1794, 1798).<br>
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Text from <u>Various Pieces in Verse and Prose</u>, 2 vols. (London: J. Dodsley, 1791). <<a href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zXT3KLT74J4C">Link to Google Books</a>><br>
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Animals::Birds | "Now, while I taste the Sweetness of the Shade, / While Nature lies around deep-lull'd in Noon, / Now come, bold Fancy, spread a daring Flight, / And view the Wonders of the torrid Zone." | Thomson, James (1700-1748) | Summer [from The Seasons (1746)] | 1746 | See <u>The Seasons. By James Thomson.</u> (London: Printed [by Henry Woodfall] for A. Millar, in the Strand, 1746). 234 pp. <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3315865100&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FA... |
Animals::Birds | "Or it may be thus: his ideas hide themselves like birds in gloomy weather; but in warm sunshine they spring forth gay and airy." | Boswell, James (1740-1795) | The Hypochondriack, No. 67 | 1783 | <u>The Hypochondriack</u>, No. 67 (April, 1783). See also <u>The London Magazine, or Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer</u>
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Animals::Birds | "Let an Hypochondriack then have his park well stocked. Let him get as many agreeable ideas into his mind as he can; and though there may in wintery days seem: a total vacancy, yet when summer glows benignant, and the time of singing of birds is come, he will be delighted with gay colours and enchanting notes." | Boswell, James (1740-1795) | The Hypochondriack, No. 67 | 1783 | <u>The Hypochondriack</u>, No. 67 (April, 1783). See also <u>The London Magazine, or Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer</u>
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Animals::Birds:::Eagle | "Now, now it shoots, / It tow'rs upon the Wing to Crowns and Empire; / While Love and Aribert, those meaner Names, / Are left far, far behind, and lost for ever. / So if by chance the Eagle's noble Off-spring, / Ta'en in the Nest, becomes some Peasant's Prize, / Compell'd a while he bears his Cage and Chains, / And lik... | Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718) | The Royal Convert. A Tragedy. | 1708 | First performed November 25, 1707. Thirty-three entries in ESTC (1708, 1714, 1719, 1720, 1725, 1726, 1728, 1733, 1736, 1757, 1764, 1765, 1768, 1774, 1776, 1779, 1780, 1782, 1791, 1794, 1795).<br>
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Animals::Birds:::Vulture | "Remorse the Raven of a guilty Mind, / Is ever croaking horrid in my Ear; / Often I rouse to banish it away, / But the Tormentor still returns again, / And like PROMETHES' Vulture, ever gnaws." | Gentleman, Francis (1728-1784) | Sejanus, a Tragedy | 1752 | At least 1 entry in ESTC (1752).<br>
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See <u>Sejanus, a Tragedy: As it was Intended for the Stage. With a Preface, Wherein the Manager's Reasons for Refusing it are Set Forth. By Mr. Gentleman.</u> (London: Printed for R. Manby and H.S. Cox, 1752.) <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T52943">Link to ESTC</a>><<a h... |
Animals::Birds::Bird Cage | "Carnal heart, immersed in sin, / All a cage of birds unclean!" | Wesley, John and Charles | Jeremiah XVII. 9 [from Hymns and Sacred Poems] | 1742 | John and Charles Wesley, <u>Hymns and Sacred Poems. Published by John Wesley, M. A. Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford; and Charles Wesley, M. A. Student of Christ-Church, Oxford</u>. (Bristol: Printed and Sold by Felix Farley, J. Wilson, W. Frederick, T. Harris, 1742). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infoma... |
Animals::Birds::Bird Lime | "'Tis [the letter of the law] the birdlime of reason to fasten our senses." | Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818) | The Letter of the Law [from Poems] | 1789 | 2 entries in ESTC (1789).<br>
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See <u>Poems: By Anthony Pasquin.</u> (London: Printed for J. Strahan, No. 67, near the Adelphi, Strand; W. Creech, Edinburgh; J. Exshaw, Dublin; and the author, No. 125, Strand, [London], [1789]). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T42591">Link to ESTC</a>><br>
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Animals::Birds::Birds of Prey | "Malice, and Lust, voracious Birds of Prey, / That out-soar Reason, and our Wishes sway; / Desires' wild Seas, on which the wise are tost, / By Pilot Indolence, are safely crost." | Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738) | The Charms of Indolence [from Poems on Several Occasions] | 1732 | Joseph Mitchell, <u>Poems on Several Occasions</u>, 2 vols. (London: Harmen Noorthouck, 1732). <<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW110021024&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>> |
Animals::Birds::Brooding and Hatching | "It would take up a larger Volume than this whole Work is intended to be, to set down all the Contrivances I hatch'd, or rather brooded upon in my Thought." | Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731) | The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner | 1719 | At least 33 entries in ESTC (1719, 1720, 1722, 1726, 1742, 1744, 1747, 1753, 1761, 1766, 1767, 1772, 1778, 1781, 1784, 1785, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1793, 1797, 1799, 1800).<br>
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Animals::Birds::Cage | "A most susceptible and tender Heart? -- Yes, you may feel it throb, it beats against my Breast, like an imprison'd Bird, and fain would burst it's Cage! to fly to you, the Aim of all its Wishes!" | Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756) | Love in Excess: or the Fatal Enquiry, a Novel | 1719 | At least 12 entries in ESTC (1719, 1720, 1721, 1722, 1724, 1725, 1732, 1742).<br>
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Animals::Birds::Cage | "My heart a cage of birds unclean, / Its old corrupt affections feels, / Its strong propensity to sin; / And God in me no longer dwells." | Wesley, John and Charles | 3263. Lord, while I in Thy name believe [from Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures] | 1762 | |
Animals::Birds::Cage | "My Soul is cover'd o'er with Shame, / My Heart a Cage of Birds unclean." | Cennick, John (1718-1755) | Hymn LVII. The Sinner [from Sacred Hymns for the Children of God] | 1741 | At least 5 entries in ESTC (1741, 1742).<br>
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John Cennick, <u>Sacred Hymns for the Children of God, in the Days of their Pilgrimage</u> (London: Printed and sold by B. Miles, 1741). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T53126">Link to ESTC</a>><<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodI... |
Animals::Birds::Dove | "'<i>Let Meekness as a dove</i> / <i>'Brood in man's heart the sacred acts of Love</i>." | Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812) | The Fall of Mexico, a Poem. | 1776 | 2 entries in ESTC (1775, 1776).<br>
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Text from <u>The Fall of Mexico, A Poem. By Mr. Jerningham.</u>, new ed. (London: Printed by Scott, for J. Robson, 1776). |
Animals::Birds::Dove | "'<i>Let Meekness as a dove</i> / <i>'Brood in man's heart the sacred acts of Love</i>." | Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812) | The Fall of Mexico, a Poem. | 1776 | 2 entries in ESTC (1775, 1776).<br>
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Animals::Birds::Dove | "On minds of dove-like innocence possess'd, / On lighten'd minds, that bask in Virtue's beams, / Nothing hangs tedious; nothing old revolves / In that for which they long, for which they live." | 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, 1... |
Animals::Birds::Dove | "In vain we may lament the loss of our tranquillity; for peace, like the wandering dove, has forsaken its habitation in the bosom, and will return no more." | Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827) | Julia, a Novel; Interspersed with Some Poetical Pieces | 1790 | 2 entries in ESTC (1790).<br><br>
Julia, a Novel; Interspersed with Some Poetical Pieces. By Helen Maria Williams. In Two Volumes. (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1790). <<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004843341.0001.001">Vol. I, Link to ECCO-TCP</a>><<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004843341.0001.002... |
Animals::Birds::Dove | "Tho' the soft dove brood, gall-less, o'er your breast, / Yet let the wary serpent arm your mind." | Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743) | Sir Thomas Overbury. A Tragedy | 1724 | 4 entries in ESTC (1724, 1777, 1779).<br>
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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). <<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004884083.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>>
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Animals::Birds::Eagle | "Thou [Eagle] servant of almighty JOVE, / Who, free and swift as thought, could'st rove / To the bleak north's extremest goal." | Smart, Christopher (1722-1771) | Ode. To an Eagle Confin'd in a College Court | 1751 | 9 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1750, 1752, 1764, 1766, 1772, 1777, 1780, 1791, 1798). First published in <u>The Student, or The Oxford Monthly Miscellany</u> (July, 1751) and <u>Poems on Several Occasions</u>. Frequently republished in <u>The Oxford Sausage</u>.<br>
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Animals::Birds::Eagle | "Thou [Eagle] type of wit and sense confin'd, / Cramp'd by the oppressors of the mind, / Who study downward on the ground." | Smart, Christopher (1722-1771) | Ode. To an Eagle Confin'd in a College Court | 1751 | 9 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1750, 1752, 1764, 1766, 1772, 1777, 1780, 1791, 1798). First published in <u>The Student, or The Oxford Monthly Miscellany</u> (July, 1751) and <u>Poems on Several Occasions</u>. Frequently republished in <u>The Oxford Sausage</u>.<br>
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Animals::Birds::Eagle | "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>
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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). &... |
Animals::Birds::Eagle | "Whate'er we see, whate'er we feel, / Does all the God reveal, / Confirms the Grand Mistake / Of Those, whose Eagle-Thoughts would make / His Seat so wondrous high, / Beyond the Limits of the Sky, /Out beyond the World's wide Sphear, /And fix his Habitation there." | Woodward, George (b. 1708?) | On Lucan Lib. IX. Verse. Jupiter est, quodcunque vides. An Ode. [from Poems on Several Occasions] | 1730 | Only 1 entry in ESTC (1730).<br>
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<u>Poems on Several Occasions. By Mr. George Woodward.</u> (Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Printing-House, 1730). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T124981">Link to ESTC</a>> |
Animals::Birds::Eagle | "Pride, like an eagle, builds among the stars; / But Pleasure, lark-like, nests upon the ground." | Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765) | The Complaint. Or, Night-Thoughts on Life Death, & Immortality. Night the Fifth [Night-Thoughts] | 1743 | 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, 1... |
Animals::Birds::Eagle | "Fierce passions, so mismeasured to this scene, / Stretch'd out, like eagles' wings, beyond our nest, / Far, far beyond the worth of all below, / For earth too large, presage a nobler flight, / And evidence our title to the skies." | 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, 1... |
Animals::Birds::Eagle | "Ordinary minds seldom rise above the dull uniform tenor of common sentiments, like those animals that are condemned to creep on the ground all the days of their life; but the most lawless excursions of an original Genius, like the flight of an eagle, are towering, though devious; its path, as the course of a comet, is... | Duff, William (1732-1815) | An Essay on Original Genius | 1767 | 2 entries in ESTC (1767).<br>
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Text from William Duff, <u>An Essay on Original Genius; and its Various Modes of Exertion in Philosophy and the Fine Arts, Particularly in Poetry</u> (London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1767). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T58836a">Link to ESTC</a>> |
Animals::Birds::Eagle | "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>
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Poem first published as <u>Summer. A Poem. By James Thomson.</u> (London: Printed for J. Millan, 1727). Second edition in 1728.<br>
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Animals::Birds::Eagle | "His passion, like an eagle well reclaim'd, / Is taught to fly at nought but infinite." | Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765) | The Complaint. Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality. Night the Eighth | 1745 | 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, 1... |
Animals::Birds::Falcon | "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).
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Animals::Birds::Fledging | "My unfledged fancy had not hitherto soared to this pitch." | Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810) | Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 [First Part] | 1799 | First part published in 1799; second in 1800. Reading and transcribing text from Charles Brockden Brown, <u>Three Gothic Novels</u>. New York: Library of America,1998. |
Animals::Birds::Fluttering | "The noblest spirit, fighting her hard fate / In this damp, dusky region, charged with storms, / But feebly flutters, yet untaught to fly; / Or, flying, short her flight, and sure her fall." | Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765) | The Complaint. Or, Night-Thoughts on Life Death, & Immortality. Night the Fifth [Night-Thoughts] | 1743 | 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, 1... |
Animals::Birds::Geese | The mind devour'd by "former Lawyers" is like a silly Goose ensnared by "the sly Fox" | Byrom, John (1692-1763) | "IN NOVA FERT ANIMUS MUTATAS DICERE FORMAS CORPORA." | 1773 | 2 entries in ESTC (1773).<br>
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See <u>Miscellaneous Poems, by John Byrom, M.A. F.R.S. sometime Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Inventor of the Universal English Short-Hand. In Two Volumes.</u> (Manchester: Printed by J. Harrop, 1773). <<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T227682k/T132225">Link to ESTC</a>>&l... |
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