Date: 1661
"On this attracting Face our Pilgrim throws / His eyes, his Soul thorow those windows goes"
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1667
"The Cup-board serves to keep provision in, / Mans heart holds in it, either grace or sin."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667
"It's to the Castle of the Heart a Wall / Of Brass: it is a Christians coat of Mail, / How many do for want of it miscarry!"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667
"The heart is Gods peculiar Cabinet, / And Satan knows not what is in it set"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"First crept / The parsimonious emmet, provident / Of future; in small room large heart enclosed"
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)
Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"But know that in the soul / Are many lesser faculties, that serve / Reason as chief; among these Fancy next / Her office holds; of all external things / Which the five watchful senses represent, / She forms imaginations, aery shapes, / Which Reason, joining or disjoining, frames / All what...
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)
Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"Mine eyes he closed, but open left the cell / Of fancy, my internal sight"
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)
Date: 1675
"They were i'th' dark, their heart was a dark room, / Till saving grace from God did thither come."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1675
"True faith within, doth but apply, / Unto the soul, the soveraign remedy; / 'Tis as a door, or like a window bright, / Which to dark souls lets in the precious light"
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1675
"Who th' Image yet unborn did entertain, / And hous'd the Theater within his Brain."
preview | full record— Leigh, Richard (1649/50-1728)