Date: 1675
"Thou say'st, the spirit is a silent voyce, / VVhence is it then thou mak'st so great a noyse?"
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1676
"Music so softens and disarms the mind."
preview | full record— Etherege, Sir George (1636-1691/2)
Date: 1676
"But she has left a pleasing image of herself that wanders in my soul. It must not settle there."
preview | full record— Etherege, Sir George (1636-1691/2)
Date: 1676
The soul may be stolen from a "list'ning" virgin's heart
preview | full record— Etherege, Sir George (1636-1691/2)
Date: 1676
"The knowledge of this makes my grief hang lighter on my soul, but I shall never more be happy."
preview | full record— Etherege, Sir George (1636-1691/2)
Date: 1676
The understanding argues before the will can choose and "the last Dictate of the Judgment sways / The Will, as in a Balance, the last Weight / Put in the Scale, lifts up the other end"
preview | full record— Shadwell, Thomas (1642-1692)
Date: 1670, rev. 1678
"He's got a piece of cheese and bread in's head."
preview | full record— Ray [formerly Wray], John (1627-1705)
Date: 1678
"No more; I'm thine, and here I seal my heart to thee for ever."
preview | full record— Otway, Thomas (1652-1685)
Date: 1678, 2nd edition in 1743
"But as for that prodigious paradox of Atheists, that cogitation itself is nothing but local motion or mechanism, we could not have thought it possible, that ever any many should have given entertainment to such a conceit, but that this was rather a meer slander raised upon Atheists."
preview | full record— Cudworth, Ralph (1617-1688)
Date: 1670, rev. 1678
"The Body is the socket of the Soul."
preview | full record— Ray [formerly Wray], John (1627-1705)