Date: 1692
"His Eyes, which are the windows of his Soul, / With soft and languishing Desires are full."
preview | full record— Ames, Richard (bap. 1664?, d. 1692)
Date: 1692
"Abandon'd to a callousness and numness of soul"
preview | full record— Bentley, Richard (1662-1742)
Date: 1692
"Suspence that torture of the Mind, / Long had our Thoughts in doubts dark Cave confin'd"
preview | full record— Ames, Richard (bap. 1664?, d. 1692)
Date: 1692
"A Nobler, a Diviner Guest, / Has took possession of my Breast; / He has, and must engross it all, / And yet the room is still too small."
preview | full record— Norris, John (1657-1712)
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: 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)
Date: 1692
"There is no other dealing with you but violence, you use my heart worse than a Pirate would an utter Enemy, and put more chains than a Christian Slave has in the Turkish Bilboes--what did you mean by this Letter? why d'ye use me thus barbarously?"
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
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: 1692
"[T]he Explanation whereof is allowed by all men as satisfactory, 'tis this, in Tab. 41. Fig. 2. the Image a b of the Object A B is painted on the Retina inverted, and yet the Eye (or rather the Soul by means of the Eye) sees the Object erect and in its natural Posture."
preview | full record— Molyneux, William (1656-1698)
Date: Licens'd Decemb. 22. 1691
"And with reverence be it spoken, and the Parallel kept at due distance, there is something of equality in the Proportion which they bear in reference to one another, with that between Comedy and Tragedy; but the Drama is the long extracted from Romance and History: 'tis the Midwife to Industry, ...
preview | full record— Congreve, William (1670-1729)