Date: 1665
"The passions are the only orators who always convince"
preview | full record— La Rochefoucauld, François, duc de (1613-1680)
Date: 1665
"And indeed, the Thoughts of many a Person, are oftentimes so active, and restless, that something or other they must, and will perpetually be doing; and like unruly Souldiers, if you have not a care to employ them well, they will employ themselves ill."
preview | full record— Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
Date: 1665
"The Understanding is to order all the inferiour services of the lower Faculties; but yet it is to do this only as a lawful Master, and not as a Tyrant."
preview | full record— Hooke, Robert (1635-1703)
Date: 1667
"Now I'm again possest / Of that late fugitive, my Breast"
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1667
"Conscience is Christs Vicar in mans heart, / It keeps Court there, and acts the Judges part"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667
Conscience "is our Patron, our Apologist; / It is impartial, active, and sincere, / Gods Register in us; his Harbinger / For to prepare his way; this is beside / Mans faithful Surety, Treasurer and Guide."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667
"It is our narrow thoughts shorten these things, / By their companion Flesh inclin'd; / Which feeling its own weakness gladly brings / The same opinion to the Mind."
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"But know that in the soul / Are many lesser faculties, that serve / Reason as chief; among these Fancy next / Her office holds; of all external things / Which the five watchful senses represent, / She forms imaginations, aery shapes, / Which Reason, joining or disjoining, frames / All what...
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)
Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"Oft in her absence mimick Fancy wakes / To imitate her; but, misjoining shapes, / Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams; / Ill matching words and deeds long past or late."
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)
Date: 1671
"In good faith this thought was no stranger to my imagination."
preview | full record— Shadwell, Thomas (1642-1692)