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)
Date: 1675
"The Intellectual Theater appear'd, / As in the Fancy by a Builder rear'd."
preview | full record— Leigh, Richard (1649/50-1728)
Date: 1675
"Many such Theaters lodge in that Breast, / Where this at largest, a small space possest."
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Date: 1677
"Prepare thy heart, / For that's the room / Where God must come:"
preview | full record— Speed, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. 1679?)
Date: 1677
"So of the Soul the saying may be true, / That e're it bids its Cabinet adieu, / Four inches is the most that it doth keep / Betwixt its life and an eternal sleep"
preview | full record— Speed, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. 1679?)
Date: 1678
"Dares afraid his reasons house / (Though he had scarce so much as goose) / About his batter'd ears should tumble"
preview | full record— Philips, John (1676-1709)
Date: 1678
"He lik't not banging sans defeizance. / While t'other labors all he can / To make a window to his brain."
preview | full record— Philips, John (1676-1709)
Date: 1670, rev. 1678
"An idle brain is the Devil's shop."
preview | full record— Ray [formerly Wray], John (1627-1705)
Date: 1670, rev. 1678
"To have wind-mills in his head."
preview | full record— Ray [formerly Wray], John (1627-1705)
Date: 1678
"The Interpreter answered; This Parlor is the heart of a Man that was never sanctified by the sweet Grace of the Gospel: The dust, is his Original Sin, and inward Corruptions that have defiled the whole Man; He that began to sweep at first, is the Law; but She that brought water, and did sprinkle...
preview | full record— Bunyan, John (bap. 1628, d. 1688)