Date: 1603
"And my imaginations are as foul / As Vulcan's stithy."
preview | full record— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Date: c. 1603
"But do you suppose, when all the approaches and entrances to men's minds are beset and blocked by the most obscure idols -- idols deeply implanted and, as it were, burned in -- that any clean and polished surface remains in the mirror of the mind on which the genuine natural light of things can ...
preview | full record— Bacon, Sir Francis, Lord Verulam (1561-1626)