Date: 1656
"Some things do through our Judgement pass / As through a Multiplying Glass."
preview | full record— Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667)
Date: 1656
"Though there be no formal commonwealth or family either in the body or in the soul of man, yet there is a subordination in the body, of the inferior members to the head; there is a subordination in the soul, of the inferior faculties to the rational will." [Metaphor is Bramhall's]
preview | full record— Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)
Date: 1656
"He is too froward, that will refuse a piece of coin that is current throughout the world, because it is not stamped after his own fancy."
preview | full record— Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)
Date: 1657
"His Soul grown Pregnant, big (as 'twere) did prove / With loyall thoughts of equity and love"
preview | full record— Harington, John (1627-1700)
Date: 1657
One may have a "Self-conquering Mind"
preview | full record— Harington, John (1627-1700)
Date: 1657
"Since conquer'd Cressas Heart, yet here became / Most captive, wretch'd, through rancorous grudge (old flame)."
preview | full record— Harington, John (1627-1700)
Date: 1657
" Then Calice where the English did remain / During eleven Kings reigns from her was ta'in; / Which loss so griev'd her, as she did impart, / That Calice was engraven in her heart."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1657
"But like true steel my heart doth pant, / To touch the long'd for Adamant."
preview | full record— Bold, Henry (1627-1683)
Date: 1657
"Meanwhile, beseech'd her drink that most renownd / Choyce Cordiall sent, th' Worlds onely Soveraign; / 'Twould mint new Spirits, steel both Heart and Brain / For th' crown'd Exploit at hand"
preview | full record— Harington, John (1627-1700)
Date: 1657
"O be thou pleas'd to purge away my dross: / Calcine my soul; obliterate my sins; / And make me pure against that day begins."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)