Date: 1692
"How long great God, how must I / Immur'd in this dark Prison lye! / Where at the Grates and Avenues of sense / My Soul must watch to have intelligence."
preview | full record— Norris, John (1657-1712)
Date: 1692
"In what a miserable condition do we count those, in whom it hath pleased the great Contriver of the Eyes and Sight, to shut those two little Windows of the Soul?"
preview | full record— Molyneux, William (1656-1698)
Date: Licens'd Decemb. 22. 1691
"She had proceeded thus far in a maze of Thought, when she started to find her self so lost to her Reason, and would have trod back again that path of deluding Fancy."
preview | full record— Congreve, William (1670-1729)
Date: 1692
"For where Diligence opens the Door of the Understanding, and Impartiality keeps it, Truth is sure to find both an Entrance and a Welcome too."
preview | full record— South, Robert (1634-1716)
Date: 1693
"Thy Soul retir'd to her inmost Room, / Dreading the Pressure of the Stroke to come"
preview | full record— Hawkshaw, Benjamin (1671/2-1738)
Date: 1693
"Receive thy sight! / 'Tis said, 'tis done, a thick and churlish skin / Which stop'd the windows of his Soul within, / Flew off."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)
Date: 1693
"And when a Soul of large Dimensions comes / T' inform the human flesh--compacted Rooms, / The gladsome Fabrick full of Beauty shows"
preview | full record— Hawkshaw, Benjamin (1671/2-1738)
Date: 1693
"No, I will break this House of Clay, / Which clogs my fleeter Thoughts and Mind."
preview | full record— Hawkshaw, Benjamin (1671/2-1738)
Date: 1693
"Condemn'd in this dark Prison must I here, / Watch till the Trumpet strike mine Ear? / Must I ne'er know thy Goodness and thy Love, / Because I did transgress thy Will above? / Must Clouds and Vapours still obscure my Mind?"
preview | full record— Hawkshaw, Benjamin (1671/2-1738)
Date: 1693
"Some Glances of a State that's past I find, / Take up the Corners of my thoughtful Mind, / As cover'd Embers when they're blown, create / A Flame, and represent my former State."
preview | full record— Hawkshaw, Benjamin (1671/2-1738)