Date: 1661
"He [Satan] sew'd his Tares of Errors, and did blind / With clouds of darknesse, Man's true eye, the Mind."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1661
"This doth the understanding purge; the eye / O'th' Soul, the Mind from Motes do purifie."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1661
"On this the King pitched his Mind's clear eye, / When he cry'd out, all things are vanity."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
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: 1700
"Reason, 'tis true, shou'd over Sense Preside, / Correct our Notions, and our Judgment Guide; / But false Opinions, rooted in the Mind, / Hoodwink the Soul, and keep our Reason Blind."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1712
"When Man with Reason dignify'd is born, / No Images his naked Mind adorn: / No Sciences or Arts enrich his Brain, / Nor Fancy yet displays her pictur'd Train."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1712
"Our Intellectual, like the Body's Eye, / Whilst in the Womb, no Object can descry; / Yet is dispos'd to entertain the Light, / And judge of Things when offer'd to the Sight."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1712
"The Learned, who with Anatomic Art / Dissect the Mind, and thinking Substance part, / And various Pow'rs and Faculties assert; / Perhaps by such Abstraction of the Mind / Divide the Things, that are in Nature joyn'd."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1714
The Soul returns "Naked from off this Beach and perfect Blank, / To visit the New World"
preview | full record— Evans, Abel (1679-1737)