-
Literary Period
-
Early Modern (2441)
-
Long Eighteenth Century (2441)
-
Restoration
-
Seventeenth Century (1288)
-
Augustan (1248)
-
Eighteenth Century (1248)
-
- Metaphor Category
- Genre
-
Gender of Author
-
Male
-
- Nationality of Author
- Politics of Author
- Religion of Author
AND
Literary Period:
"Restoration"
returned 2441 results(s) in 0.004 seconds
Date: 1700
"He oft reflected on the sacred Guest, / Which had her fixt abode within his Breast, / And in his Works her God-like Form exprest."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1700
"God has placed a Natural light, as a Candle in our Hearts; and His Supernatural light does Influence and Direct it."
preview | full record— Leslie, Charles (1650-1722)
Date: 1700
"Solomon says, Prov. xx. 27. The Spirit of man is the Candle of the Lord, searching all the Inward Parts."
preview | full record— Leslie, Charles (1650-1722)
Date: 1700
"For (says he) Man can no more be a Light to his Mind than he is to his Body: And thence infers, that as the Eye has no Light in it self, so neither the Understanding."
preview | full record— Leslie, Charles (1650-1722)
Date: 1700
"He makes our Nature and Minds wholly Dark of themselves, only succeptible of Super-natural light, when sent into our Understanding."
preview | full record— Leslie, Charles (1650-1722)
Date: 1700
" I will not take advantage of the Philosophy of this; for, I suppose his meaning to be, that it is Natural to the Understanding to Receive a Light that is infused into it, as for the Eye to see by an Extraneous light; that is, it is an Organ fitted to Receive Light, tho' it has none in it self; ...
preview | full record— Leslie, Charles (1650-1722)
Date: 1700
"And so, tho they have Reason, yet are they not Reasonable, because that Reason is none of their own, only as Gifted, that is, Accidental, but not Natural to them; and so they can no more be called Rational, than a Bag can be called Rich, that has Money in it."
preview | full record— Leslie, Charles (1650-1722)
Date: 1700, 1703, 1709
"But left th'Impression deep upon my Mind / Of DUNCOMB honour'd, and AUGUSTA kind."
preview | full record— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)
Date: 1700
"No shackling Rhyme chain'd the free Poets mind; / Majestick was his Style, and unconfin'd."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)
Date: 1700, 1717
"He, tho' from Heav'n remote, to Heav'n cou'd move, / With Strength of Mind, and tread th' Abyss above; / And penetrate with his interior Light / Those upper Depths, which Nature hid from Sight"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
