Date: 1684
"Examine how your Humour is inclin'd, / And which the Ruling Passion of your Mind"
preview | full record— Dillon, Wentworth, 4th Earl of Roscommon (1637-1685)
Date: 1685
A Partner of a king's sway may be "greater in the Empire of His Heart"
preview | full record— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730)
Date: 1685
Words entring the narrow Gate of the ear "Through the Ears winding Turnpikes progress make, / And are conducted to the Intellect, / In decent order, have quick audience"
preview | full record— Clark, William (fl. 1663-1685)
Date: 1685
From "the council of the common Sense" a message "As quick returns: for words are instantly / Dispatch'd in answer"
preview | full record— Clark, William (fl. 1663-1685)
Date: 1685
One's " own Conscience / Tells him he's guilty, yet pleads innocence. / But what says all this to the case in hand?"
preview | full record— Clark, William (fl. 1663-1685)
Date: 1685
"No, no, such practises I do detest, / I keep a constant Jury in my breast, / By which I'm hourly try'd, no allegation, / No fain'd excuse, no specious information, / No falshood, no corrupted evidence, / In that impartial Court of Conscience, / Will ever be receiv'd, at any rate, / From this sam...
preview | full record— Clark, William (fl. 1663-1685)
Date: 1686
"That many-headed Monster [the passions] has thrown down / Its lawful Monarch Reason from its Throne."
preview | full record— Flatman, Thomas (1635-1688)
Date: 1686, 1712
"Here, even my Will's a slave to Passions made, / Passions which have its Liberty betray'd."
preview | full record— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730)
Date: 1686, 1712
"O! that some usual Labour were injoyn'd, / And not the Tyrant Vice enslav'd my mind! / No weight of Chains cou'd grieve my captive Hands, / Like the loath'd Drudg'ry of its base Commands."
preview | full record— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730)
Date: 1686, 1689, 1697
"As soon as ever the Parts begin to be form'd by Nature, this Animal and active Principle begins to exert its Heat and Force, being lodged in the Heart as in the Centre of the Body, from whence, as the Vessels begin also to be form'd, it distributes it self towards the extreme Regions, communicat...
preview | full record— Nourse, Timothy (c.1636–1699)