Date: 1691
"I'm the righter of Wrongs, and undoer of Injuries--Heart of Steel, and Arms of Brass."
preview | full record— Wilson, John (bap. 1626, d. 1695?)
Date: 1691
"Why weren't the Royal Regiment sent for Flanders? / With English hearts of Oak, and Horns well steel'd, / To Butt the Puny Monsieur from the Field."
preview | full record— Mountfort, William (c.1664-1692)
Date: 1691
"Thou like as a Refiner doth / The Gold and Silver try, / We had much dross until thou didst / Our Souls, Lord, purifie."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1691
"How haps it then, Ideas stay behind, / And, when We please, can paint anew the Mind, / When what created them is fled, like Wind?"
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1691
"If th' Eye into't nothing Material drew, / How is't the Mind can former Objects view, / And dress i'th' Brain the wandring Schemes anew?"
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1691
"How haps, what did unto our Sight advance, / In Dreams again i'th' cheated Soul do dance, / And with fresh Charms the credulous Mind entrance?"
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1691
"If Old and New i'th Brain together crowd, / How is it Room and Peace is them allow'd? /How do they and their Equipages come? /For if Material, they must take up room. / And tract of Time would hoard up such a Crop, / The crowded Atoms would the Channels stop, / And choke the Passages of Vision up."
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1691
Speech is the "Delight of Life and Mirrour of the Heart, / By which our Thoughts, which none can see, / We to our own and others Joys impart."
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1691
"Wisest of Beings! What we do design, / And in dark Caverns of our Breast confine"
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1691
"And strangely doth the Vast Abyss contain / Within the Vaster Ocean of his Brain."
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)