Date: 1661
"Such were Love's Ardors, he could scarce forbear / His fettering flesh, his free Soul's chaines, to tear."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1667
"Conscience is Christs Vicar in mans heart, / It keeps Court there, and acts the Judges part"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667
"Pray'r is a Coach which by the Spirit driven, / Hurries our Souls into the Courts of Heaven."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1670
Weakness of mind may be water-like or wax-like
preview | full record— Greville, Fulke, first Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court (1554-1628)
Date: 1684
"This Youth to dinner came, Intruding fashion, / With certain Friend; Danc'd with that Golden Lass; / Found Courting pause sometimes, no Heart of brass, / Softned, orecame: yet once before beheld; / Woo'd then by Looks, now th' Hand and Tongue reveal'd / ...
preview | full record— Harington, John (1627-1700)
Date: 1685
"The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, / Lets in new light by chinks that time hath made: / Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become, / As they draw near to their eternal home"
preview | full record— Waller, Edmund (1606-1687)
Date: 1685
"The seas are quiet, when the winds give o'er, / So calm are we, when passions are no more"
preview | full record— Waller, Edmund (1606-1687)
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: 1693
"No suppliant crowds before the judge appeared; / No court erected yet, nor cause was heard; / But all was safe, for conscience was their guard."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1694
"Thy mighty Soul, stamp'd of Heav'n's noblest Coin, / More Pure than Gold, more Precious and Divine, / Does in thy Everlasting Vertues shine."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)