Date: 1682
"Our Passions are nothing else but certain Disallowable Motions of the Mind; Sudden, and Eager; which, by Frequency, and Neglect, turn to a Disease; as a Distillation brings us first to a Cough, and then to a Phthisick."
preview | full record— L'Estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704)
Date: 1683
"Pythagoras saw Hesiod's Soul ty'd / To Brass-Pillars, wept and cry'd;"
preview | full record— Dixon, Robert (1614/15-1688).
Date: 1686
"Our souls are all disrob'd, all naked laid, / In thy true Mirror men themselves do see"
preview | full record— Flatman, Thomas (1635-1688)
Date: 1687
Man's mind like his "outward form" charmed the eyes of the "wondering herd"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
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: 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: 1715
"'Twas Zeno's Advice to Dip the Tongue in the Mind before one should Speak."
preview | full record— Bulstrode, Richard, Sir (1610-1711)
Date: 1715
"But Malvezzi tell us, it is, for that Nature in Providence drives away the Evil from it self, and thriftily reserves that which is Good; and for this Reason it is, says he, that those who have the Plague are desirous to come into Company, that they may give it to others; and by the same Reason, ...
preview | full record— Bulstrode, Richard, Sir (1610-1711)