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Date: 1607
"If the happie Daemon of Vlisses direct not the wandering planet of my witte within the decent orbe of wisedome, my stammering pen seeming far ouergon with superfluitie of phrase, yet wanting matter I answer with the poet one only word inuerted."
preview | full record— Walkington, Thomas (b. c. 1575, d. 1621)
Date: 1607
"To quench thy learned thirst I meant to draine / The Hippocrenian Fountaine of my braine."
preview | full record— Walkington, Thomas (b. c. 1575, d. 1621)
Date: 1607
"Therefore Iulian the Apostata who had flood of inuention, although that whole flood could not wash or rinch away that one spot of his atheisme, he (though not knowing him a right) could say the body was the chariot of the soule, which while it was well manag'd by discretion the cunning coachman,...
preview | full record— Walkington, Thomas (b. c. 1575, d. 1621)
Date: 1607
"Now for the body, as well it leuils at it: for those who distemper and misdiet them selues with vntimely and vnwonted surfeting, who make their bodies the noysome sepulchers of their soules, not considering the estate of their enfeebled body what will be accordant to it, not waighing their compl...
preview | full record— Walkington, Thomas (b. c. 1575, d. 1621)
Date: 1607
"Whose soule by his selfe ignorance (not knowing what repast was most conuenient for his body) was pent vp and as it were fettred in these his corps as in her dungeon."
preview | full record— Walkington, Thomas (b. c. 1575, d. 1621)
Date: 1610
"Man is a lump, where all beasts kneaded be / Wisdom makes him an ark where all agree."
preview | full record— Donne, John (1572-1631)
Date: 1610
Man may keep himself "empaled" to keep animals out
preview | full record— Donne, John (1572-1631)
Date: 1610
Souls may "by our first touch, take in / The poisonous tincture of original sin"
preview | full record— Donne, John (1572-1631)
Date: 1610
Man "into himself can draw / All, all his faith can swallow, or reason chaw ... All the round world, to man is but a pill."
preview | full record— Donne, John (1572-1631)
Date: 1610
"Man is a lump, where all beasts kneaded be, / Wisdom makes him an ark where all agree; / The fool, in whom these beasts do live at jar, / Is sport to others and a theatre, / Nor 'scapes he so, but is himself their prey; / All which was man in him is eat away, / And now his beasts on one another ...
preview | full record— Donne, John (1572-1631)
