Date: 1685
One's thoughts and joys may be "all pack'd up and gone"
preview | full record— Mason, John (1646?-1694)
Date: 1685
"Sure he, who first the passage tried, / In hardened oak his heart did hide, / And ribs of iron armed his side;"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700); Horace (65 B.C. - 8 B.C.)
Date: 1685
"These bugbears of the mind, this inward hell, / No rays of outward sunshine can dispel; / But nature and right reason must display / Their beams abroad, and bring the darksome soul to day."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1685
Tho' a World of dull Bullion your essence do's hold, / Scarce an Atom of Soul was cast into the Mould, / Room enough, and to spare lavish Nature allows, / But provides not a Tenant to suit with the House
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)
Date: 1686, 1712
"See how my melting Passions hast and run, / Like Virgin-wax before the scorching Sun!"
preview | full record— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730)
Date: 1686, 1712
One may be " to a narrow Dungeon confin'd, / A Cave that darkens and restrains [the] Mind"
preview | full record— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730)
Date: 1686, 1712
"When first my Soul put on its fleshly Load, / It was Imprison'd in the dark Abode; / My Feet were Fetters, my Hands Manacles, / My Sinews Chains, and all Confinement else; / My Bones the Bars of my loath'd Prison grate; / My Tongue the Turn-key, and my Mouth the Gate."
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)
Date: 1686, 1689, 1697
"Indeed, whosoever considers the curious Inventions of Wit, the vast Comprehension and subtile Inferences of the Understanding, the wonderful Sagacity and Prospect of Prudence, the noble Endowments and Speculations of the Mind, the quick Transitions and Successions of Thoughts, together with the ...
preview | full record— Nourse, Timothy (c.1636–1699)
Date: 1686, 1689, 1697
"The grand Instruments by which the Understanding works, are Memory and Invention: Now, since these Faculties have their foundation in the sensitive Capacity, as this Prop is withdrawn, the Understanding must of Consequence be more clouded and obscure."
preview | full record— Nourse, Timothy (c.1636–1699)