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Date: 1672
"A heart in loves Empire, tho' jocund, and blyth / From cares, and from fears can never be free"
preview | full record— Ravenscroft, Edward (c.1650- c.1700)
Date: 1672, 1727
"The Obligation arises no otherwise from the Love of our Happiness, than the Truth of Propositions concerning the Existence of Things natural, and of their First Cause, which is thence discover'd, arises from the Credit given to the Testimony of our Senses."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1632-1718)
Date: 1672?
A woman may "erect her Throne" in a "sullen Heart"
preview | full record— Sedley, Sir Charles (1639-1701)
Date: 1672?
"Our Hearts are Paper, Beauty is the Pen, / Which writes our Loves, and blots 'em out agen"
preview | full record— Sedley, Sir Charles (1639-1701)
Date: November 1672, 1673
"Ay, ay, when the love is once come so far, that Spiritual Mind will never leave pulling, and pulling, till it has drawn the beastly body after it."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: November 4, 1672, 1673
"Thou Live, and yet speak against Drinking, the very thing that distinguishes the Life of Man from that of a Beast! Why, 'tis the onely Spur of Wit and Reason; I have heard more new thoughts in Drinking three hours, then the best Modern Play can furnish you with; Therefore if thou would'st Live, ...
preview | full record— Payne, Henry [alias Henry Nevill] (d. 1705?)
Date: 1672, 1701
"The Contemplation of the Object represents the matter to the mind, in the same manner as its outward appearance doth to the Eye."
preview | full record— Salmon, William (1644-1713)
Date: 1673
"[Y]our whole frame [is] as innocent, and holy, as if your being were all soul and spirit, without the gross allay of flesh and bloud"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1673
"The methodical Block-head that is as regular as a Clock, and as little knows why he is so, is the man cut out by Nature and Fortune for business and government."
preview | full record— Shadwell, Thomas (1642-1692)
Date: 1673
Modest "is indeed a vertu of a general influence; does not only ballast the mind with sober and humble thoughts of ones self, but also steers every part of the outward frame."
preview | full record— Allestree, Richard (1611/2-1681)
