Date: 1678, 2nd edition in 1743
"So that Cogitation is in Order of Nature, before Local Motion, and Incorporeal before Corporeal Substance, the Former having a Natural Imperium upon the Latter."
preview | full record— Cudworth, Ralph (1617-1688)
Date: 1679
"For the Black King that had usurp'd that Land, / An Ill shapt Bastard had, of proud command, / Whom having drest up in a much Gallantry, / He did appear so pleasant in her Eye, / That he before had her affections won, / And in her heart established his Throne."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1679
"'Tis he [Satan] that keeps the Soul in Iron Chains, / And robs her of all Sense; lest those great pains / She otherwise might feel, should make her cry / To be deliver'd from his slavery."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1679, 1707
"Whilst Sense and Fancy over-rule their Choice, / And Reason in th'Election has no Voice."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 1679, 1707
"But Souls in vain have Reason's Attribute, / If to their Rule they cannot Sense submit. / Hence the Heroick Mind makes no complaint, / But Freedom does enjoy, e'en in Restraint. / When Chains and Fetters do his Body bind, / He then appears more free, and less confin'd."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 1679
Reason, Innocence, and Love divide the empire and preside "o're th' Inferiour Appetite"
preview | full record— Woodford, Samuel (1636-1700)
Date: 1680
"Beauty, Love, Constancy, and Wit" may crown the heart
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1680
"O, 'tis confess'd; / And howsoe're my Tongue has plaid the Braggart, / She Reigns more fully in my Soul than ever: / She Garrisons my Breast, and Mans against me / Even my own Rebel thoughts, with thousand Graces, / Ten thousand Charms, and new discover'd Beauties."
preview | full record— Lee, Nathaniel (1653-1692)
Date: 1681
"This [sadness] fetters all our Senses, pulleth down / Heav'ns Image, Reason from her rightful Throne / And in her room, by Fancies pow'rful Charm, / Sets up a feigned Ill to work our Harm."
preview | full record— Chamberlayne, Sir James (c.1640-1699)
Date: 1681
"Also the ignorance of what is Equity in their own causes, which Equity not one Man in a thousand ever Studied, and the Lawyers themselves seek not for their Judgments in their own Breasts, but in the precedents of former Judges, as the Antient Judges sought the same, not in their own Reason, but...
preview | full record— Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)