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Date: 1642, 1655, 1668
"Nor wonder, if (advantag'd in my flight, / By taking wing from thy auspicious height) / Through untrac't ways, and aery paths I fly, / More boundless in my Fancy than my eie."
preview | full record— Denham, John, Sir (1615-1669)
Date: 1660, 1676
"For a scrupulous conscience does not take away the proper determination of the understanding; but it is like a Woman handling of a Frog or a Chicken, which, all their friends tell them, can do them no hurt, and they are convinced in reason that they cannot, they believe it and know it ;...
preview | full record— Taylor, Jeremy (bap. 1613, 1667)