Date: 1673
" For tho the adulterations of art, can represent in the same Face beauty in one position, and deformity in another, yet nature is more sincere, and never meant a serene and clear forhead, should be the frontispiece to a cloudy tempestuous heart."
preview | full record— Allestree, Richard (1611/2-1681)
Date: 1674
"This Glandule which he supposeth to be so easily flexible and yielding to contrary impulses, is not loosely suspended, but fixed: so that whoever hath once beheld the solid basis, strong consistence, and firm connexion thereof, will hardly ever be brought to allow it capable of any impulse to ei...
preview | full record— Charleton, Walter (1620-1707)
Date: August, 1674; 1675
"My rage he scorns, and negligent appears, / And thinks the Storm will melt away in tears"
preview | full record— Crowne, John (bap. 1641, d. 1712)
Date: 1670, rev. 1678
"Corn is cleansed with the wind, and the soul with chastning."
preview | full record— Ray [formerly Wray], John (1627-1705)
Date: 1681
"[H]ere's the wit of a Tarpawlin now; one ruffling Storm frights away all their brains, to make room for the fumes that make them Valiant"
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1682
"Betwixt violent Passion, and a Fluctuation, or Wambling of the Mind, there is such a Difference, as betwixt the Agitation of a Storm, and the Nauseous Sickness of a Calm."
preview | full record— L'Estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704)
Date: 1685
"The seas are quiet, when the winds give o'er, / So calm are we, when passions are no more"
preview | full record— Waller, Edmund (1606-1687)
Date: 1686
"He finds no Tempest in his Mind, / Fears no Billow, feels no Wind: / All is serene, and quiet there."
preview | full record— Flatman, Thomas (1635-1688)
Date: 1686
"Oh what a Tempest have I in my Stomach?"
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1686, 1689, 1697
"The grand Instruments by which the Understanding works, are Memory and Invention: Now, since these Faculties have their foundation in the sensitive Capacity, as this Prop is withdrawn, the Understanding must of Consequence be more clouded and obscure."
preview | full record— Nourse, Timothy (c.1636–1699)