Date: 1685
"The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, / Lets in new light by chinks that time hath made: / Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become, / As they draw near to their eternal home"
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Date: 1685
One's " own Conscience / Tells him he's guilty, yet pleads innocence. / But what says all this to the case in hand?"
preview | full record— Clark, William (fl. 1663-1685)
Date: 1685
"That I have sinn'd, yet sure to none of you / I ever gave offence: my sins at least, / Were acted in the closet of my breast"
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Date: 1685
"God is accustom'd seriously to show / To men (what often they conceal for shame) / Their future state i'th' mirrour of a dream."
preview | full record— Clark, William (fl. 1663-1685)
Date: 1685
"No, no, my friends, I utterly detest / The very thoughts of sin; nor, in the least / Will I allow my heart to entertain / Such guests as those, of which you do complain."
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Date: 1685
"The seas are quiet, when the winds give o'er, / So calm are we, when passions are no more"
preview | full record— Waller, Edmund (1606-1687)
Date: 1685
"No, no, such practises I do detest, / I keep a constant Jury in my breast, / By which I'm hourly try'd, no allegation, / No fain'd excuse, no specious information, / No falshood, no corrupted evidence, / In that impartial Court of Conscience, / Will ever be receiv'd, at any rate, / From this sam...
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Date: 1687
"And Monarch's can depose, or can create: / With secret Chains their Subjects Conscience binds, / And lays inchanted Fetters on their Minds."
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1687
"Such Beings Philosophick heads relate / Of heavenly stamp"
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1687
"Each Note tun'd up the Soul, calcin'd the Mind, / Commenc'd them something more than humane kind; / Their very Bodies into-Souls refin'd."
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)