Date: 1662
"Flowers, rivers, woods, the pleasant air and wind, / With Sacred thoughts, do feed my serious mind."
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Date: 1667
"We are by nature Base ones, Lord pour in / Thy grace, & from our souls feet wash off sin."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667
"It's to the Castle of the Heart a Wall / Of Brass: it is a Christians coat of Mail, / How many do for want of it miscarry!"
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Date: 1667
"Good Conscience on God it self can roul; / 'Tis Aquavitæ to the swouning soul."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"But knowledge is as food, and needs no less / Her temperance over appetite, to know / In measure what the mind may well contain; / Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns / Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind."
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)
Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"Mammon led them on-- / Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell / From Heaven; for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts / Were always downward bent."
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Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"Mine eyes he closed, but open left the cell / Of fancy, my internal sight"
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)
Date: 1671
"But he though blind of sight, / Despis'd and thought extinguish't quite, / With inward eyes illuminated / His fierie vertue rouz'd / From under ashes into sudden flame"
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Date: 1673, 1684
"Th' illiterate Writer, Emperique like, applies / To minds diseas'd, unsafe, chance Remedies."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1679
"I'le praise his Name, who hath reveal'd / To me his everlasting Love, / Who with his stripes my Soul hath heal'd."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)