Date: 1612
"Another part became the well of sense, / The tender well-arm'd feeling brain, from whence / Those sinewy strings, which do our bodies tie, / Are ravelled out, and fast there by one end, / Did this soul limbs, these limbs a soul attend."
preview | full record— Donne, John (1572-1631)
Date: 1632
"Looke as it is with a Gold smith that melteth the metall that he is to make a vessell of, if after the melting thereof, there follow a cooling, it had beene as good it had never beene melted, it is as hard, haply harder, as unfit, haply unfitter, then it was before to make vessell of; but after ...
preview | full record— Hooker, Richard (1554-1600)
Date: 1641
"As Lots wife was turned into a Pillar of Salt, that her inconstancie might be fixt, and yet be melting still: So, thou, my Soule, if I had my wish, shouldst be turned into a Pillar of Thoughts; that thy volubility might be restrain'd, and yet be thinking still."
preview | full record— Baker, Richard, Sir (c. 1568-1645)
Date: 1661
"Then is the Soul fit to be wrought upon, / And to receive Heav'ns seal's impression."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1661
"The Microcosm, little world, or Man, / Containeth all the outward great world can."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1679
"'Tis sure, thy heart hath too too many leaks, / Which sacred things let out, and then let in / Satans suggestions, the world, and sin"
preview | full record— Slater, Samuel (c.1629-1704)
Date: 1718, 1747
"A piece of sculpture admirably wrought is put out to view, but, to preserve it against the injuries of the weather, or for some other reason, is varnished over. Every body extols the artist, and is pleased with his work; and yet no one sees that which was the immediate subject of his art, being ...
preview | full record— Grove, Henry (1684-1738)
Date: 1762
"With strongest confidence assert / The secret of the Lord reveal'd, / The image stamp'd upon your heart"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles