Date: 1691
'My very Brains (as Manichæus's Skin) are stuff'd with Chaff."
preview | full record— Dunton, John (1659–1732)
Date: 1691
"Learning lies deep, and short is Reason's Line, / And weakly do we guess at things Divine!"
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1691
The Soul's a Particle of Heavenly fire, / And boldly doth to every thing aspire: / But yet how low Her lofty Flights do fall; / When She attempts the Wonders of this Ball!"
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1691
"If then the Medium's false [i.e., the senses], thrô which Arts go, / How can we hope the genuine Truth to know? / The Water pure and clear i'th' Fountain flows; / But with ill Mixtures doth its Nature lose; / And tasts of every Soil, thrô which it goes."
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1692
"This my lost Treasure to restore; / Thy magic vertues all apply, / Set up again my Bank-rupt memory. / Search every Cell and corner of my brain, / And bring my Fugitive again."
preview | full record— Norris, John (1657-1712)
Date: 1692
"The tender age was pliant to command; / Like wax it yielded to the forming hand: / True to the artificer, the laboured mind / With ease was pious, generous, just, and kind."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
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: Licens'd Decemb. 22. 1691
"O Leonora! (continued he) how hast thou stamp'd thine Image on my Soul! How much dearer am I to my self, since I have had thy Heavenly Form in keeping!"
preview | full record— Congreve, William (1670-1729)
Date: Licens'd Decemb. 22. 1691
"For still I did preserve your Image in my Heart, and you were ever present to my dearest Thoughts."
preview | full record— Congreve, William (1670-1729)
Date: Licens'd Decemb. 22. 1691
"I burn and am consumed with hopeless Love; those Beams in whose soft temperate warmth I wanton'd heretofore, now flash destruction to my Soul, my Treacherous greedy Eyes have suck'd the glaring Light, they have united all its Rays, and, like a burning-Glass, Convey'd the pointed Meteor to-my Hea...
preview | full record— Congreve, William (1670-1729)