Date: 1677
"His Soul appears like Paper white, / That yet had scarce bore word aright."
preview | full record— Speed, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. 1679?)
Date: 1681
The Law of Nature has often been "described and discoursed in metaphorical and allusive Expressions, such as Engravings, and Inscriptions, and the Tables of the Heart."
preview | full record— Parker, Samuel (1640-1688)
Date: November, 1682
"Heav'n's early care prescrib'd for every age; / First, in the soul, and after, in the page."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1683
"Many a Lye, many a Fable, / Is engrav'd on the Souls Razed Table."
preview | full record— Dixon, Robert (1614/15-1688).
Date: 1692
"But now, Impartiality strips the Mind of Prejudice and Passion, keeps it right and even from the Byass of Interest and Desire, and so presents it like a Rasa Tabula, equally disposed to the Reception of all Truth."
preview | full record— South, Robert (1634-1716)
Date: 1693
"Needless was written law, where none opprest; / The law of man was written in his breast."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1697
"Besides, long causes working in her mind, / And secret seeds of envy, lay behind; / Deep graven in her heart the doom remain'd / Of partial Paris, and her form disdain'd; / The grace bestow'd on ravish'd Ganymed, / Electra's glories, and her injur'd bed."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)