Date: Trans. c. 1425
"The gate also of mynde is schitt, þat it haþ no mynde of þe world ne of his owne sensible feelynge."
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Date: 1653
"Deare Brother, thy Idea in my mind doth lye, / And is intomb'd in my sad memory."
preview | full record— Cavendish, Margaret (1623-1673)
Date: 1653
"And some place may in th' head be hung with black, / Which makes us dull, yet know not what we lack."
preview | full record— Cavendish, Margaret (1623-1673)
Date: 1654
"The eyes and the ears are the inlets or doors of the soul, through which innumerable objects enter."
preview | full record— Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672)
Date: 1654
"The certainty that that time will come, together with the uncertainty, how, where, and when, should make us so to number our days to apply our hearts to wisdom, that when we are put out of these houses of clay we may be sure of an everlasting habitation that fades not away."
preview | full record— Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672)
Date: 1667
"Too promising, too great a mind/ In so small room to be confin'd"
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1667
"By giving thy Soul room to move: / Affording scene unto that mind, / Which is too great to be confin'd. [...]Thou mightst retire, but who e're meant / A Palace for a Tenement"
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1667
"And as in Palaces the outmost, worst / Rooms entertain our wonder at the first; / But once within the Presence-Chamber door, / We do despise what e're we saw before: / So when you with her Mind acquaintance get, / You'l hardly think upon the Cabinet."
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1667
"Thy Heart locks up my Secrets richly set, / And my Breast is thy private Cabinet."
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1667
"And yet those Souls, when first they met, / Lookt out at windows through the Eyes."
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