Date: 1684
"Sad Frailty howere both Body, Mind display, / That brighter Coin bad Mixture does Allay."
preview | full record— Harington, John (1627-1700)
Date: 1684 [1685]
"Would I could coin my very heart to gold!"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1689, 1716
Honor is "The richest Treasure of a generous Breast, / 'That gives the Stamp and Standard to the rest."
preview | full record— Montagu, Charles, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661-1715)
Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706
"Whatever then we talk of innate, either speculative or practical Principles, it may, with as much probability, be said, That a Man hath 100 l. sterling in his Pocket, and yet denied, that he hath there either Penny, Shilling, Crown, or other Coin, out of which the Sum ...
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706
"Such borrowed Wealth, like Fairy-money, though it were Gold in the hand from which he received it, will be but Leaves and Dust when it comes to use."
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1691
"Within the inner Closet of my Brain / Attend the nobler Members of my Train; / Invention, Master of my Mint, grows there, / And Memory, my faithful Treasurer."
preview | full record— Dunton, John (1659–1732)
Date: 1691
"Hunger will caper over stone Walls, I might add, over Hills set upon Hills, and therefore did I chuse in Affliction rather to make my Brains my Exchequer, than (like a Modest Gentleman) to groan under the Slavery of a Blushing Temper."
preview | full record— Dunton, John (1659–1732)
Date: 1692
"For these rude Pangs of Jealousie, are much more certain signs / Of Love, than all the tender Words an amorous Fancy coins."
preview | full record— Walsh, William (bap. 1662, d. 1708)
Date: 1692
"This my lost Treasure to restore; / Thy magic vertues all apply, / Set up again my Bank-rupt memory. / Search every Cell and corner of my brain, / And bring my Fugitive again."
preview | full record— Norris, John (1657-1712)
Date: October 15, 1692
"[Locke] will allow no idea innate but such as a man brings coined in his mind like a shilling."
preview | full record— King, William (1650-1729)