Book//mark – Julie, or the New Heloise | Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1761
^ Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Portrait by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, 1753 Julie, or the New Heloise, 1761 ^ “As long...
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Maelzel’s Chess Player / The Turk | Wolfgang von Kempelen, 1769 – Edgar Allan Poe, 1836
The automated chess player "The Turk," as depicted in an engraving. . "Maelzel's Chess Player" (1836) is an essay by...
Frame Inside | Portrait of a Young Man / Pompeo Batoni, 1760-65 / Woody Allen, 1963
Pompeo Batoni, Portrait of a Young Man, 1760 - 65 ...
Days [ ) Sensorium | Laurence Sterne, 1768
unknown “Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of...
Days [ ) Illusion | Voltaire, 1756
unknown "Illusion is the first of all pleasures" Voltaire - The quotation comes from a line in a version of Voltaire's satirical...