Date: 1621
"And such are those, whose wily, waxen minde /Takes every Seal, and sails with every Winde"
preview | full record— Sylvester, Joshua (1562/3-;1618)
Date: 1621
One may have " A waxen mildnes in a steely minde"
preview | full record— Sylvester, Joshua (1562/3-;1618)
Date: 1621
One may have "A soule tra-lucent in an open brest"
preview | full record— Sylvester, Joshua (1562/3-;1618)
Date: 1621
" It was (as I said) once well agreeing with reason, and there was an excellent consent and harmony between them, but that is now dissolved, they often jar, reason is overborne by passion: Fertur equis auriga, nec audit currus habenas, as so many wild horses run away with a chariot, and will not ...
preview | full record— Burton, Robert (1577-1640)
Date: 1622
"In darkness you may see him, that's in absence, / Which is the greatest darkness falls on love; / Yet is he best discernèd then / With intellectual eyesight."
preview | full record— Middleton, Thomas ( 1580-1627); Rowley, William (1585-1626)
Date: 1622
"This booke [the conscience] consisteth of two parts, or volumes; The one is a law-booke, wherein are set downe the grounds and principles of truth, and equity ... The other part is a Chronicle, or Registrie, wherein all our workes are written."
preview | full record— Hughes, John (fl. 1622)
Date: 1623
"[Conscience is a book] euen in thine owne bosome, written by the finger of God, in such plaine Characters, and so legible, that though thou knowest not a letter in any other booke, yet thou maist reade this"
preview | full record— Carpenter, Richard (1575-1627)
Date: 1623
Conscience is "the Lord-Keeper, the Chancellor ... who keepeth a Chancery in the soule of man"
preview | full record— Bourne, Immanuel (1590-1672)
Date: 1623
Conscience is "a noble and divine power and faculty, planted of God in the substance of a mans soule, working upon it selfe by reflection, and taking exact notice, as a Scribe or Register, and determingin Gods Viceroy and deputy, Judge of all that is in the mind, will, affections, actions, and th...
preview | full record— Carpenter, Richard (1575-1627)
Date: 1623
Conscience is "a noble and divine power and faculty, planted of God in the substance of a mans soule, working upon it selfe by reflection, and taking exact notice, as a Scribe or Register, and determingin Gods Viceroy and deputy, Judge of all that is in the mind, will, affections, actions, and th...
preview | full record— Carpenter, Richard (1575-1627)