Date: 1660, 1676
"That is, of that which God hath declared to be good or evil respectively, the conscience is to be informed. God hath taken care that his laws shall be published to all his subjects, he hath written them where they must needs read them, not in Tables of stone or Phylacteries on the forehead, but ...
preview | full record— Taylor, Jeremy (bap. 1613, 1667)
Date: 1667
"Conscience is Christs Vicar in mans heart, / It keeps Court there, and acts the Judges part"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: August, 1674; 1675
"But thou who art not ignorant of my Rivals affairs, tell me, what passes in his Court, in his Soul!"
preview | full record— Crowne, John (bap. 1641, d. 1712)
Date: 1696
"The Prince, at this moment, banish'd from his Breast the Idea of all the Court-Beauties he had ever seen, and gaz'd on this Master-piece of Nature so long, till he had imprinted Cordelia's Image too deep for time ever to deface."
preview | full record— Pix, Mary (c.1666-1720)
Date: 1702
"Shall then the seeming Beauty of this thing / So dis-ingage from Duty to the King / Of Glory, who alone should rule in Man? / The Heart should be his Throne."
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: 1702
"Reason, that honours Mankind more than Beast, / Gives forth its Laws and Dictates in each Breast"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: 1702
"Modesty, that in their Bosom reigns, / Detests and loaths whatever spots or stains"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: 1702
The "true Noble Mind / Conquers a Wrong by Patience, is resign'd / For Vertue's sake to bear, that Reason may / Be Re-enthron'd, and Passion pass away"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: w. 1682, 1702
"Chastity, sits as with awful Grace, / Enthron'd i'th' Heart, and sweetly in the Face / Holds forth its Ensign"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: w. 1678, 1702
"[B]e not over-curious to express / Too much Exactness in an outward Dress; / Lest peevish Passion should too oft prevail, / To banish Reason from its Throne, and vail / Sound Judgment"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)