Date: 1706, 1715 [1706-1721]
"At the sight of this object I am not my own master: my soul is disturbed and rebels, and I fancy it has a mind to leave me!"
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 1697, 1700
"And from the narrow limits of the Heart, / The Active Soul doth vigorous Life impart / To all the Limbs, its Sway the Members own, / Wide is its Empire from its petty Throne."
preview | full record— Manilius, Marcus (fl. 1st Century AD), Creech, Thomas (1659-1700)
Date: 1700
"If not your wife, let reason's rule persuade / Name but my fault, amends shall soon be made."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1683
"Falsely they [sense and rhyme] seem each other to oppose; / Rhyme must be made with Reason's laws to close; / And when to conquer her you bend your force, / The mind will triumph in the noble course."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700) [Poem ascribed to]
Date: 1683
"To Reason's yoke she quickly will incline, / Which, far from hurting, renders her divine; / But if neglected, will as easily stray, / And master Reason, which she should obey."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700) [Poem ascribed to]
Date: w. c. 54-8, trans. 1611
"So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin."
preview | full record— Paul of Tarsus (b.c. 10, d.c. 67)
Date: 1611
"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: w. c. 54-8, trans. 1611
"For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else exc...
preview | full record— Paul of Tarsus (b.c. 10, d.c. 67)
Date: 1661
"[Y]et is my Will / Free, as the Conquerour's: and Rome shall finde, / I still retain the Empire of my Minde, / That stands above her reach, where I alone / Will rule, and scorn to live, but on a Throne."
preview | full record— Ross, Thomas (bap. 1620, d. 1675)
Date: 1661
"Him th'unhappy Queen / Views with an earnest Eye, and Entertains / With Smiles: for Love within her Bosom Reigns."
preview | full record— Ross, Thomas (bap. 1620, d. 1675)