Date: 1689
The passion ambition "'Tis the minds Wolf, a strange Disease, / That ev'n Saciety can't appease"
preview | full record— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)
Date: 1689
"So the Philosopher would needs be blind, / T' improve the nobler Eye-sight of his Mind, / Not to mean earthly Opticks be confin'd."
preview | full record— Goodall, Charles (1671-1689)
Date: 1691
"How haps, what did unto our Sight advance, / In Dreams again i'th' cheated Soul do dance, / And with fresh Charms the credulous Mind entrance?"
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1691
"Thoughts are our Plagues; the Beasts, that none do know, / Are Free from trouble and resentment too."
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1692
"At Distance thro' an artful Glass / To the Mind's Eye Things well appear."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1692
"Gold first their Blindfold Reason led astray"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1692
"Suspence that torture of the Mind, / Long had our Thoughts in doubts dark Cave confin'd"
preview | full record— Ames, Richard (bap. 1664?, d. 1692)
Date: 1693
"I grant this true: But, still, the deadly wound / Is in thy Soul: 'Tis there thou art not sound."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1693
"Knock on my Heart; for thou hast skill to find / If it sound solid, or be fill'd with Wind; / And, thro the veil of words, thou view'st the naked Mind."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1699
"Reason 'tis true, should over sense preside, / Correct our Notions and our Judgments guide; / But false Opinions, rooted in the mind / Hood-wink the Soul, and keep the Reason blind."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)