Date: 1605, 1640
"By which wordes he declares, not obscurely, that God hath framed the Mind of Man, as a Mirror or Glasse capable of the Image of the universall world, and as joyfull to receive the impressions thereof, as the eye joyeth to receave light; and not only delighted in the beholding, the variety of thi...
preview | full record— Bacon, Sir Francis, Lord Verulam (1561-1626)
Date: 1605, 1640
"For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced."
preview | full record— Bacon, Sir Francis, Lord Verulam (1561-1626)
Date: 1684
A "charming Voice, and Art" may gain "the conquest of my Heart
preview | full record— Oldham, John (1653-1683)
Date: 1687
"And Monarch's can depose, or can create: / With secret Chains their Subjects Conscience binds, / And lays inchanted Fetters on their Minds."
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1687
"Such Beings Philosophick heads relate / Of heavenly stamp"
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Date: 1687
"Each Note tun'd up the Soul, calcin'd the Mind, / Commenc'd them something more than humane kind; / Their very Bodies into-Souls refin'd."
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