Date: 1598
"An habitation giddy and unsure / Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart."
preview | full record— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Date: 1600
"Than to drive liking to the name of love. / But now I am returned, and that war-thoughts/ Have left their places vacant, in their rooms / Come thronging soft and delicate desires."
preview | full record— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Date: 1600
"Th' idea of her life shall sweetly creep / Into his study of imagination."
preview | full record— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Date: 1603
"And my imaginations are as foul / As Vulcan's stithy."
preview | full record— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Date: 1664
"They are moved (if I may dare to say so) like the rational creatures of the Almighty Poet, who walk at liberty, in their own opinion, because their fetters are invisible; when, indeed, the prison of their will is the more sure for being large; and instead of an absolute power over their actions,...
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1670
"Thus, like a captive in an isle confined, / Man walks at large, a prisoner of the mind."
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Date: 1675
"But though my Person, nor my Wealth, should find / A room unfurnish'd in your well-built mind: / I'll rather be for plain defects despis'd, / Than for low cheats and false Perfections, priz'd"
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Date: 1678
"And yet the soul, shut up in her dark room, / Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing"
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Date: 1680
"And nothing to the Soul can come, / Till th' ushering Senses make it room."
preview | full record— Shadwell, Thomas (1642-1692)
Date: 1682
"I freely give it: so is my heart the dearest faithfull Closet of your Merit."
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)