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: 1704
"Who then wou'd court the Pomp of guilty Power, / When the Mind sickens at the weary Shew, / And flies to temporary Death for Ease."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1709, 1714
"The Specter still will haunt us, in some Shape or other: and when driven from our cool Thoughts, and frighted from the Closet, will meet us even at Court, and fill our Heads with Dreams of Grandure, Titles, Honours, and a false Magnificence and Beauty; to which we are ready to sacrifice our high...
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)