Date: 1642
"The heart of man is the place the Devils dwell in: I feel sometimes a Hell within my self; Lucifer keeps his Court in my breast, Legion is revived in me."
preview | full record— Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682)
Date: 1661
"Then is the Soul fit to be wrought upon, / And to receive Heav'ns seal's impression."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1661
"The Microcosm, little world, or Man, / Containeth all the outward great world can."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1670
Weakness of mind may be water-like or wax-like
preview | full record— Greville, Fulke, first Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court (1554-1628)
Date: 1701
"Stand by ye Fools--That noble Theam's my share,/ Farce is a Strain too low to court the Fair; / When to that pitch your Thoughts attempt to fly, / Like unskill'd Icarus you soar too high."
preview | full record— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)
Date: 1702
"When Friends converse together Face to Face; / Then freely they Unbosom their Requests, / And treasure Secrets in each others Breasts, / As in firm Cabinets, close lock'd, where none / Can find the Key, but only each his own."
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: 1702
The "Memory of some doth rot"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: w. 1682, 1702
Friendship springs "From some interiour, hidden, innate Cause, / In Noble Breasts, uncircumscrib'd by Laws"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: w. 1684, 1702
"These rugged Walls, less grievous are to me, / Than those bedeck'd with curious Arras be / T'a guilty Conscience; to a wounded Heart, / A Palace cannot palliate that smart: / Tho' drunk with Pleasure, dull with Opiates, / Some seem as Senseless of their sad Estates, / Till on their Dying-Beds Co...
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: 1705
"At length a Court of Conscience is erected by the Mind, where all particular Acts are scrupulously examined, by reason of these frequent Variances of the Souls, the Animal Spirits, as being too much, and in a manner perpetually exercised, and being commanded here and there contrary ways, and alm...
preview | full record— Beaumont, John (c.1640-1731)